Hour of the Wolf

The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real.
Vargtimmen (1968)
Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Erland Josephson, Naima Wifstrand, Ulf Johansson, Gudrun Brost, Bertil Anderberg, Ingrid Thulin
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Lars-Owe Carlberg
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Lars Johan Werle
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Marik Vos-Lundh
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Ulla Ryghe
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Short description

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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  • Psychoanalysts call "the hour of the wolf" the time when a person, left alone, takes stock.
  • Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) wrote the screenplay in 1964 and initially titled the story "Cannibals." He was then hospitalized with pneumonia, where he reassessed the entire project and decided that realizing this concept would be too expensive. Bergman returned to this idea shortly after filming "Persona" (1966), but reworked it into something more affordable.

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