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Das satanische Dickicht – EINS / ZWEI / DREI

Willy Hans I 2014-2017 I 81'

SYNOPSIS

Three stories set in the countryside. Several families spend a pleasant weekend. But the unexpected and the inexplicable always ends up coming to the surface.

BIOGRAPHY

Willy Hans

WILLY HANS was born in 1982 in Freiburg and studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He is a founding member of the film collective Spengemann Eichberg Goldkamp Hans. His films include the short film trilogy The Satanic Thicket. His most recent work is What Probably Would Have Happened If I Hadn't Stayed at Home.

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Critical text

Nothing is what it seems behind the quite appearances of idyllic rural Germany. This trilogy is neither the usual Germanic film about the dark side of the European bourgeoisie. Defying all kinds of expectations, using up a sly, surly humour and leaving behind a torrent of tension and unease, The Satanic Thicket - whose three instalments aroused admiration and applause at the Oberhausen, Locarno and Rotterdam festivals - reveals an outstanding filmmaker, a conspicuous creator of atmospheres and a boisterous narrator. With his triptych, Willy Hans achieves one of the finest achievements of young German and, by extension, European cinema. Film(s) worth getting into and getting lost in.
GABRIEL DOMÉNECH

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