Stranded with a stranger who can't understand you—what could possibly go wrong?
A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
Direction
Stelling's obsessive framing turns a shack into a pressure cooker.
Acting
Van der Woude's wordless desperation is genuinely disturbing.
Director
Jos Stelling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stéphane Excoffier and Jim van der Woude actually didn't share a language on set, making the tension authentic.
This Dutch arthouse oddity won the Golden Calf for Best Film, then promptly vanished from international consciousness.
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