Drama
Austria/France/Germany 2003
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Wega Film
DIRECTED BY
Michael Haneke
SCREENPLAY
Michael Haneke
PRODUCERS
Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Weber
CAST
Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Bénichou, Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle, Anais Demoustier, Olivier Gourmet
The time preceding the apocalypse, when all values disintegrate and the highest becomes the lowest, is known in Germanic mythology as the time of the wolves. Fleeing a disaster, a middle-class family (father, mother, two children) travel from the city to their private countryside refuge, believing themselves to be escaping the consequences of the general state of chaos.