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A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents' isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen - an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control.
Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a salt shaker is a "telephone," an armchair is "the sea") - until a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son's libidinal urges, plans the seeds of rebellion by trading VHS tapes for sexual favors. (partially adapted from the New Directors/New Films catalog).
Original Release
06/01/2009
US Release
12/15/2009
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Christos Stergioglou | Father |
Michele Valley | Mother |
Christos Passalis | Son |
Mary Tsoni | Younger Daughter |
Anna Kalaitzidou | Christina |
Steve Krikris | Colleague |
Sissi Petropoulou | Secretary |
Alexander Voulgaris | Dog trainer |
Rachel Rogers | Older Daughter |
Directors
Writers
Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast
Name | Character |
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Christos Stergioglou | Father |
Michele Valley | Mother |
Christos Passalis | Son |
Mary Tsoni | Younger Daughter |
Anna Kalaitzidou | Christina |
Steve Krikris | Colleague |
Sissi Petropoulou | Secretary |
Alexander Voulgaris | Dog trainer |
Rachel Rogers | Older Daughter |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Iraklis Mavroidis | Executive Producer |
Angelos Venetis | Executive Producer |
Yorgos Lanthimos | Producer |
Katerina Kaskanioti | Producer |
Vicky Miha | Producer |
Athina Rachel Tsangari | Producer |
Yorgos Tsourgiannis | Producer |
Editors
Trailers
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2011 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year | Nominated |