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Werewolf
Survivor
Poland / Netherlands / Germany 2018
produced by Magdalena Kaminska, Agata Szymanska for Balapolis, House of Netherhorror, Twenty Twenty Vision, Telewizja Polska, Rosco Polska
directed by Adrian Panek
starring Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica, Danuta Stenka, Werner Daehn, Jakub Syska, Helena Mazur, Krzysztof Durski, Maksymilian Balcerowski, Julia Slusarczyk, Matylda Ignasiak, Oleksandr Shcherbyna, Eugeniusz Malinowski, Radoslaw Chrzescianski, Wojciech Namiotko, Barbara Pigon
written by Adrian Panek, music by Antoni Lazarkiewicz, makeup effects by Dariusz Krysiak
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Poland 1945, at the tail end of World War 2: A group of children (Kamil
Polnisiak,
Nicolas
Przygoda,
Jakub
Syska,
Helena
Mazur,
Krzysztof
Durski,
Maksymilian
Balcerowski,
Julia
Slusarczyk,
Matylda
Ignasiak) have just been liberated from a concentration camp - but all
their parents have been murdered in the camp, and with no administration
yet in place, they have nowhere to go. Hanka (Sonia Mietielica), like them
a liberated inmate and hardly any older as the kids and not cut out for
the job, has taken it upon herself to take them to a decaying mansion
where she hopes to leave the children with its caretaker Jadwiga (Danuta
Stenka) - but that situation's less than ideal as food and even water are
scarce in the mansion. But things take a turn for the worse when while out
in the forest, Jadwiga is killed by a wild animal. Shortly after, a
handful of Russian soldiers arrive at the mansion - but it soon becomes
clear that they haven't so much come as liberators as they're looking for
the spoils of war, and one of them almost rapes Hanka. Eventually though
they're all violently killed by a pack of ferocious dogs - formerly guard
dogs of the very concentration camp the kids were held in - looking for
food. Fortunately Hanka and the children manage to barricade themselves
inside the mansion, but now they're under siege, with barely any food
left, and the food they do have is rotten, short on water, and desparate
for a way out ... Now despite its comparatively happy ending, Werewolf
isn't a very uplifting movie, basically because of its "out of the
fire and into the frying pan" premise, where a group of children who
have prematurely lost their innocence are chasing for scraps of happiness
that always elude them. And the film's very good at portraying the
children and their guardian as deeply traumatized who would have problems
keeping it together at the best of times - something that's mirrored in
pretty excellent performances from the whole ensemble. But despite a very
depressing set-up, the film's still quite engaging, thanks to a
directorial effort that's well-versed in both atmosphere and action, and
that puts an emphasis on excitement. The outcome is a very compelling
movie that - if you're in the right mood for something a bit depressing -
most certainly deserves a watch.
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