Werewolf2019
“Liberation was just the beginning...”
Directed by Adrian Panek
🏆 11 wins & 14 nominations
The premise
Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.
Horror Vault's take
In the summer of 1945, a group of children liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp are brought to a remote, forest-encircled palace to begin healing under the care of a young survivor turned guardian. Their fragile recovery is shattered when packs of feral, starving Alsatians — former camp dogs abandoned by the retreating SS — begin closing in on the estate. Drawing on the same desperate instincts that kept them alive in the camp, the children must face a new predator in a world that was supposed to be safe at last. This Polish production blurs the line between historical drama and creature-siege horror with an unflinching eye on the cost of survival.
Content: Depictions Of Child Endangerment, References To Concentration Camp Atrocities, Animal-Related Violence, Intense Threat And Peril
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