Production

Synopsis

In a small village in Bavaria in 1932, four young people are brutally murdered.

To calm the villagers, the local council (Christian Tramitz, Sepp Schauer, Heio von Stetten, Max Schmidt, Christian Swoboda and Joachim Zons) blames the crime on a rabid wolf. After rumors grow louder that the murderer must be a human or even a werewolf, Joseph Köhler (Markus Brandl), who is notorious as a hermit and lives alone on the edge of the forest with his daughter Mitzi (Sophie Röhrmoser), is arrested as the perpetrator.

Since he refuses to confess to the crimes, the mood becomes increasingly sour until the men no longer shy away from violence. The women of the village (including Christine Neubauer, Eva Mähl, Christine Zierl) make a last desperate attempt to counteract the madness that has gripped the actually reasonable villagers.

Inspired by one of the last recorded witch trials and set in the turbulent and dangerous times shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, “Hundswut” is a film that, although set almost 100 years ago, is terribly timeless.

The outstanding cast, including Konstantin Wecker, Annika Preil, Ferdinand Dörfler and Corinna Binzer, guarantees a high-class and intense cinema experience that will make you think.