Dogtooth

Name: Dogtooth
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-10-22
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Hristos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni

The cat is the most feared animal there is!

Κυνόδοντας (2009)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Video for the film Dogtooth — Dogtooth (2009) - Interview with director Yorgos Lanthimos

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Release date

2009-10-22

Country

Greece

Production

Greek Film Centre, Boo Productions, Horsefly Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$275 000

Box office

$110 248

Website

Director

Yorgos Lanthimos

Actors

Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Hristos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Anna Kalaitzidou, Steve Krikris, Sissi Petropoulou, Alexander Voulgaris
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Scenario

Producer

Yorgos Lanthimos, Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Iraklis Mavroidis, Angelos Venetis

Camera operator

Thimios Bakatakis

Composer

Grégoire Hetzel

Artist

Audition

Christina Akzoti, Alex Kelly

Editing

Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Whole Team (33)

Short description

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

What's left behind the scenes

The children's names are never mentioned in the film.
Work on the film began with a conversation between Yorgos Lanthimos (who became the film’s director and one of the screenwriters) and friends who were about to get married. Lanthimos expressed doubts about the institution of marriage and family, and it occurred to him to make a film about a man who would stop at nothing to protect his family.
One could say the film is about claustrophobia, and the filmmakers chose the largest house they could find as the filming location, complete with a swimming pool and a huge garden.