Hundstage (2001)
Release Year: 2001
Alternative Title: Dog Days, Canicule, Días perros
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Production & Genre
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Keywords
Keywords: suburbian idyll, new love, jealousy, alcohol, heat, longing, bad luck, fate, summer, suburb, drugs, vienna, austria, existence
Story
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
Summary
In the tomb-like quiet of their ranch-style purgatory, a divorced husband and wife fight a wordless war while mourning an unspeakable mutual loss. A sadistic lover's ritual humiliation spawns both tenderness and revenge.
