Angst (1983/I)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Gerald Kargl

Writers:

Gerald Kargl (writer)
Zbigniew Rybczynski (writer)

Genre:

Crime | Horror

Plot:

A man is released from prison after serving four years for murdering an elderly woman. He quickly begins to feel the compulsion to kill again...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Violence | Rape | House | Stabbing

Cast

Erwin Leder	...	The Psychopath
Robert Hunger-Bühler	...	Off-Text (voice)
Silvia Rabenreither	...	Tochter
Karin Springer	...	Tochter (voice)
Edith Rosset	...	Mutter
Josefine Lakatha	...	Mutter (voice)
Rudolf Götz	...	Sohn
Renate Kastelik	...	Taxilenkerin
Hermann Groissenberger	...	Gast im Café
Claudia Schinko	...	Gast im Café
Beate Jurkowitsch	...	Gast im Café
Rosa Schandl	...	Kellnerin im Café
Rolf Bock	...	Polizist
Emil Polaczek

Directed by
Gerald Kargl

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Gerald Kargl		writer
Zbigniew Rybczynski		writer

Produced by
Gerald Kargl	....	producer
Josef Reitinger-Laska	....	producer

Original Music by
Klaus Schulze

Cinematography by
Zbigniew Rybczynski

Film Editing by
Zbigniew Rybczynski

Costume Design by
Michaela Donau

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dusty Sprengnagel	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Klaus Kovarik	....	foley artist
Klaus Kovarik	....	sound
Mel Kutbay	....	foley artist
Rolf Wiegand	....	sound

Production Companies

• Gerald Kargl

Distributors

• Epix Media (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• VDS Video (1985) (Belgium) (video) (French and Dutch subtitles)

Also Known As:

Fear (USA)

Runtime:

Belgium:94 min (video version)

Country:

Austria

Language:

German

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Certification:

Germany:18

Company:

Gerald Kargl

Trivia:

According to French filmmaker Pascal Laugier, it was in fact Zbigniew Rybczynski (the writer and cinematographer of the movie) who also directed the movie. He only used the name 'Gerald Kargl' as an alias as he was afraid to put his own name as director.

Quotes:

[first lines]
The Psychopath: The fear in her eyes and the knife in the chest. That's my last memory of my mother. That's why I had to go to prison for four years, even though she survived.

One of the most explicit psychokillers of all times...

This film combines a hard history of one psychokiller whit a incredible use of the camera, i have never seen this before an after, the camera turns around the actors realizing imposible movement and hallucinating travellings (e.g. in the woods).The name of the camera is Risinsky, one of the best that i see, i don´t know much about him but i think that is a master. If you can see this film is a masterpice of the psychotrillers.