Dog Days
2001 · Movie · 122 min · ★ 6.5 · 57% critics
Dog Days follows several residents in a Vienna suburb during an intense heat wave. The film unfolds through multiple intertwined episodes, showing pressure, conflict, and strained relationships as daily life boils over.
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Details
- Original title
- Hundstage
- Years
- 2001
- Release date
- 2001-09-03
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Critic score
- 57/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (105 votes)
About
You’ll likely like Dog Days if you enjoy a serious, unflinching mosaic of suburban life during a heat wave; Not for you if you want light entertainment or a clearly uplifting mood, similar in mood to Europa or Good Bye Lenin!
Pros: gritty everyday episodes; human-condition focus; intense heatwave setting | Cons: bleak and harsh tone; explicit/rough content; episodes feel disconnected
Themes
- suburbian idyll
- new love
- jealousy
- alcohol
- heat
- longing
- bad luck
- fate
- summer
- suburb
- drugs
- vienna, austria
- +1 more
Awards & recognition
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival · 2001
- European Film Award — European Discovery of the Year · 2001 · nominated
Cast & crew
Maria Hofstätter
as Die Anhalterin
Alfred Mrva
as Der Mann für die Sicherheit
Franziska Weisz
as Die Freundin des Opel-Freaks
Christine Jirku
as Lehrerin und Geliebte von Vikerl
- VH
Viktor Hennemann
as Vikerl
Georg Friedrich
as Angetrunkener Freund von Vikerl
Claudia Martini
as Die geschiedene Frau und Freundin des Masseurs
- VR
Victor Rathbone
as Der geschiedene Mann
- GL
Gerti Lehner
as Haushälterin des Alten Mannes
- EF
Erich Finsches
as Alter Mann
Directed by Ulrich Seidl