Wilkolak (2018)
Genre: Drama / Horror
Duration: 88 minuten
Alternative title: Werewolf
Country:
Poland / Netherlands / Germany
Directed by: Adrian Panek
Stars: Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda and Sonia Mietielica
IMDb score:
6,0 (1.744)
Releasedate: 29 March 2019
Wilkolak plot
In 1945, some children, who survived the Holocaust and were liberated by Russian soldiers, are taken to a makeshift orphanage in the middle of a forest, run by an elderly woman. While waiting for provisions, the children roam the forest in search of food. A horrifying surprise awaits them when they are ravaged by wolfhounds. A battle erupts when the young guard must survive both the monsters outside and inside.
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
I saw the low score here but thought: the movie can't be that bad, can it? After all, the film looks atmospheric, the theme – man as monster/beast (that is the werewolf the title refers to) – is interesting and the critics are quite positive. But the fact that the film is atmospheric (in a cliché way: forest in the fog, house in the fog, etc.) is unfortunately the only positive thing I was able to discover about the film…
The story is incredibly poorly written and uninteresting: the children are doing incomprehensible things all the time, incomprehensible things are happening all the time (e.g. where did that old woman suddenly go who took care of the children?) and every action ends in an anticlimax so that there is no development whatsoever in the story (there is a constant threat but in the end nothing happens). Everything in the film is unbelievable and the fact that children and dogs – who play practically all the roles – are not exactly the best actors does not help that credibility. Like watching amateur theater with a script written by your 10-year-old sister.
The movie didn't teach me anything about the beast in man either: by analogy, the movie doesn't get any further than that kids can fight like animals for food and as a metaphor, apart from the Nazis (duh!) I've seen little evil in the movie except endless barking (but not one child biting) dogs. The moral seems to be that we shouldn't kill the evil (within us) (for some reason the kids in the movie think it's very important that no dog gets killed, even though it eats all the soldiers alive and goes the whole movie about them threatening to eat the kids too) but that we have to tame that evil ("Nieder!") so it doesn't hurt anymore.
At the opening credits I saw that this film was made with Dutch support. I suspect that is the only reason this film was released in the Netherlands.
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DionneDarko
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- 648 messages
- 6128 votes
I'm not sure yet, it fluctuates between a 3.0 and 3.5. Very attractive but not always effective. Some things were a bit unclear. I kind of confused some kids in the beginning. A lot went just a little too fleetingly. To answer your question The Philosopher the woman lay dead next to another corpse when the children walked back to the house, which was shown in a very brief moment. She had left earlier when the whole group had walked into the woods to look for berries. The woman hoped that the Russians would bring food and announced that she would go back earlier for that reason, but she was on her way so apparently killed. (Assume attacked by a dog, throat was bitten open if I saw correctly. A child fell over that dead body, and her lifeless body lay right next to it. I was lucky to notice it was a flash. She had of course also short hair, that made it completely unclear. You probably thought you were looking at the cadaver of that man you saw seconds earlier. I thought the ending was a bit disappointing, so it wasn't a full-blooded horror. The message I did like the one I took out. The kids came out of a horrible situation and ended up in a horrible situation.For a moment it seemed like some of them had taken on some dark stuff too.The dogs too, but in the end you see the kids getting their have not lost humanity, and the dogs, they only follow orders. The real monsters, those were the Nazis.
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knusse stoel
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- 3292 messages
- 4358 votes
This film is difficult to place in a genre box, but to call it pure horror .... no, drama is more appropriate here. So we would advise the viewer(s) who still want(s) to see the film and would prefer to see(s) a horror film to look for another one. The film does pass horrific things, such as the man who is torn apart by the sheepdogs and an almost seeming corpse, which still lets a wave of blood flow from the mouth, but for the average horror movie viewer this is easy to process and too little.
The story revolves more around a group of children who are taken to a house in the forests of Lower Silesia after the Russians liberate "Gross-Rosen". There they are taken care of by a woman who will take care of them for the time being, but there are already problems such as too little food and drinking water. There are also groups of trained watchdogs in the woods that are dangerous to outsiders.
If you are going to see the film as a drama production with horror influences, you have made a good choice, but for the horror lover again, you are wrong with this film!
Overall a 7+.
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