Werewolf

2019, Movie, 1h 28min

Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.

Country: Germany,Netherlands,Poland

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Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...a disturbing, challenging drama, but one that perhaps begins to lose its narrative focus as the story proceeds. The children’s faces – pinched, starved, tensed with fear, pain and urge to survive – are piercingly disturbing and real.

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In the summer of 1945, a group of eight children, liberated from a Nazi concentration camp, find refuge in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests. Their guardian, Hanka, a former inmate herself, tries to help them regain what's left of their childhood. But the horrors of their past soon come haunting back as they're besieged by feral dogs, released by the SS and now roaming the forests, hungry and violent. The children must join forces to survive, confronting their fears and the beasts that surround them. As they fight for life, they'll discover the true meaning of resilience and the strength of human spirit.

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