Autumn Blood
Film poster
Directed byMarkus Blunder
Written byMarkus Blunder
Stephen T. Barton
Story byGunther Aloys
Produced byMarkus Blunder
Starring
CinematographyReed Morano
Edited byJoe Landauer
Music byRobert Miller
Production
companies
Dreamrunner Pictures
Mountain Film
Distributed byThim Film
ARC Entertainment
Release date
  • September 14, 2013 (2013-09-14) (Oldenburg International Filmfest)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageEnglish

Autumn Blood is a 2013 English-language Austrian thriller drama film directed by Markus Blunder and starring Sophie Lowe.[1][2]

Premise

A mother and her two children, an older sister and a younger brother, witness a man shoot their husband and father. Traumatized, the boy never speaks again. The children grow up and the girl becomes a beautiful young woman, who attracts the attention of some local men. One day while the girl is swimming alone in a natural spring in the mountains a man appears, he rapes her and she staggers back home. While at their home the boy finds that their mother has died in her bed. A while later the men, an older father, his grown son, and his sons friends, come to the house of the children and one of them rapes the girl again.

Later, they find out a social worker is making inquiries about the girl at the local post office, because the girl has collected welfare instead of her deceased mother. So the men come to the house with rifles, apparently to kill the girl and boy and a hunt begins. During this hunt for the children one of the men falls to his death, another is killed by his friend, then right before the son shoots the girl the father kills his own son. He then offers the girl his rifle to shoot him, but she refuses to do so.

Cast

  • Sophie Lowe as The Girl
  • Maximilian Harnisch as The Boy
  • Peter Stormare as The Mayor
  • Samuel Vauramo as The Hunter
  • Gustaf Skarsgård as The Butcher
  • Tim Morten Uhlenbrock as The Friend
  • Annica McCrudden as The Social Worker
  • George Lenz as The Clerk
  • Nelly Gschwandtner as The Hunter's Wife
  • Julia Dietze as The Butcher's Wife
  • Hansa Czypionka as The Priest
  • Jonas Laux as The Father
  • Jacqueline Le Saunier as The Mother
  • Hannah Payr as Young Girl
  • Elias Köfler as Young Boy
  • Margarete Tiesel as Village Woman

Reception

The film received a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Tsai, Martin (18 September 2014). "Review 'Autumn Blood' sheds gratuitous violence". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Film Review: Autumn Blood". Film Journal International. 19 September 2014. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Autumn Blood (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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