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Hour of the Wolf

(Vargtimmen, Ingmar Bergman, 1968, Sweden)

1. A black and white image of a man rowing a large boat to shore. A woman is sitting in the back of the boat.
Jul 24, 2025 7:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students
Free for Ohio State students

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The legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman brings horror and menace to his trademark examinations of relationships in crisis.

Filled with a Gothic air of nightmarish power and dreamlike effects, Hour of the Wolf features Bergman’s most iconic actors, Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, at the peak of their careers. The award-winning von Sydow stars as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile on a Swedish island with his wife (Ullmann). When the couple is invited to a nearby castle for dinner, things start to go wrong with a vengeance as a coven of sinister aristocrats hastens the artist’s psychological deterioration. Hour of the Wolf was voted one of the 50 greatest films of all time in a 2012 British Film Institute poll of over 300 filmmakers. With Erland Josephson and Ingrid Thulin. In Swedish with English subtitles. (88 mins., DCP) 

Goreometer: 1 / 4
OK for scaredy-cats, mainly an unsettling, mysterious, and surreal atmosphere. 

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Hour of the Wolf, courtesy of Janus Films.

"Ingmar Bergman is still the best director of all time and Hour of the Wolf is one of my five favorite foreign films ever."
John Waters

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Hour of the Wolf

Jul 24, 2025 7:00 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students
Free for Ohio State students

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request.

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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