CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2012
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MOVIE2012 1h 44m AUT

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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The Wall

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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Its landscape feels beautiful, indifferent, and unknowable, while its central mystery resists easy explanation. The film matches The Wall’s unnerving fusion of natural splendor and metaphysical dread.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A woman (Martina Gedeck) travels with her two friends, Hugo and Luise, and their loyal dog Lynx to their isolated hunting lodge in the Central Eastern Alps. Soon after they arrive, Luise insists that Hugo accompany her to a pub in a nearby village, leaving behind their dog and the woman. The next morning, realizing her friends never returned as planned, the woman sets off on foot toward the village, followed by the dog. As she walks along the road, her progress is stopped abruptly by a mysterious invisible wall. After several unsuccessful attempts to continue past the invisible barrier, the woman turns back to the lodge with the dog. Along the way she approaches a farmhouse, but again is prevented by the invisible wall from making contact with the two owners who appear frozen in time.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Ulrike Beimpold

Luise

Wolfgang Maria Bauer

Mann

Martina Gedeck

Martina Gedeck

Frau

Karlheinz Hackl

Hugo

Julia Gschnitzer

Keuschlerin

Hans-Michael Rehberg

Keuschler