Director
Greg Zglinski
Starring
Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Ostrowski
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Certificate
18
Run Time
95 mins
Release Year
2017
Country of Origin
Switzerland, Austria, Poland
Language
German
Director of Photography: Piotr Jaxa
Editor: Karina Ressler
Produced by: Stefan Jäger, Katrin Renz
Music: Bartosz Chajdecki
Screenplay by: Jörg Kalt, Greg Zglinski
Sound Production: Laurent Jespersen
Animals (Tiere)
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Anna and Nick are a middle-class Viennese couple whose marriage is on the rocks. The couple decamps to a Swiss chalet to work on their relationship and give Anna the chance to finish her latest novel. Yet a bizarre accident en route opens up a nightmarish Lynchian alternate reality of doubts, delusions and doppelgängers. Polish-Swiss director Greg Zglinski has fully reimagined one of the final scripts of the late Austrian filmmaker Jörg Kalt, in this deliciously dark and unnerving requiem for a relationship.
Contains flashing images.
This film is supported by the Swiss Cultural Fund and the Polish Cultural Institute.