(816) SIEBEN MONDE [Seven Moons] (1998) with Christoph Waltz
3867DVD
A
Werewolf Thriller with Christoph Waltz & Marie Baumer
Original
German Title: SIEBEN MONDE [Seven Moons]
also known as NIGHT TIME
director: Peter
Fratzscher
starring: Jan Josef Liefers · Marie Baumer · Christoph Waltz · Ulrich
Muhe · Peter Kohmeyer
Before
Christoph Waltz was discovered by Quentin Tarantino for the Oscar-Winning
role of SS officer Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastards (2009),
and before he won another Academy Award for his performance in Django
Unchained (2012), this Austrian actor had already enjoyed a 30 year
career punctuated by 68 motion pictures and major involvement in another
22 German TV series. Virtually none of his European projects have ever
been seen in the United States. For this werewolf thriller [made ten
years before his American 'debut'], he steals the show as new-age police
Inspector Becker.
The film follows a struggling writer named Thomas Kromer who becomes
fascinated by stories of a local serial killer whom the Media has begun
calling a Werewolf. After each brutal full-moon murder [with wolf prints
and animal fur discovered at the scene], even the police are reluctantly
starting to think the killer is most likely a wolfman. Meanwhile, Thomas
Kromer discovers the evidence seems to point to one person... himself.
Desperately, he attempts to find the truth. But the police are also
suspicious of Thomas when his own grandmother is brutally slaughtered
in her remote 'fairy-tale-fashioned' home.
Director Peter Fratzscher has created a different kind of werewolf film,
constructed within a thriller landscape and driven by vivid characterizations.
The quirky style is reminiscent of other European projects (eg.,
Pasquale Fanetti's LYCANTHROPUS,
Walerian Borowczyk's BEAST,
Pedro Olea's FOREST
OF THE WOLF, et al) with a sinister nod to THE
BREED.
A German film
with English subtitles; widescreen format, fully uncut (93 minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT
Graphic
Violence/Nudity/Sexual
Situations:
Recommended for Mature Audiences
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