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Gutland

A surreal village noir

6.0 / 10

107 minutes

2018-05-13

German

BE

Actors :

Frederick Lau, Vicky Krieps, Gerdy Zint, Pit Bukowski, Marco Lorenzini, Leo Folschette, Christiane Hoffmann, Martine Kohn, Irina Blanaru, Sandy Schott, Theo Lieser, Guy Schwickerath, Yvette Müller, Sandro Pantanali, Roger Origer

Description

Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, the mayor’s unruly daughter, takes a liking to him, does the village change its attitude: he is promptly offered a job as a farmhand and a caravan to live in. As time passes and he is gradually integrated into the community, it emerges that he’s not the only one with a past to hide. Something sinister is lurking under the immaculate surface of this picturesque little world - and it is slowly drawing him in.