The Forest
MovieTitle | Der Wald |
User score | 10 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Viktor Gasic |
Production country | Czech Republic, Germany |
Production companies | Utopia-Film |
Run time | 138 min. |
Two couples and their children go on an excursion into the forest. They are young, successful and well-set parts in today's social-political establishment. When their children disappear in a storm, the entire construct of their friendship starts to crumble. Very soon, their bourgeoisie façade falls and the four turn into the profile of a lost culture. What follows is an odyssey through the forests that turns more and more into a journey into the metaphysical. The story is told in fragments and out of chronological order. The forest and the film imagery act as a poetic expression of the inner mind, creating the metaphorical psychogram of a lost cul-ture that desperately looking for a way out and a future. It is a poetic portrait of today's society.