Film

Dogtooth

2009 · 1h 38m · Drama

IMDb

7.1

Rotten Tomatoes

94%

Metacritic

72

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Christos Stergioglou

Father

Michele Valley

Mother

Hristos Passalis

Son

Angeliki Papoulia

Older Daughter

Mary Tsoni

Younger Daughter

Anna Kalaitzidou

Christina

Steve Krikris

Colleague

Sissi Petropoulou

Secretary

Alexander Voulgaris

Dog Trainer

• Yorgos LanthimosDirector · Screenplay · Producer
• Efthimis FilippouScreenplay
• Yorgos TsourgiannisProducer
• Iraklis MavroidisExecutive Producer
• Angelos VenetisExecutive Producer
• Thimios BakatakisDirector of Photography
• Yorgos MavropsaridisEditor
• Alex KellyCasting
• Christina AkzotiCasting

4K Restoration Trailer [Subtitled]Official US Trailer [Subtitled]Official UK trailer [Subtitled]

Release date

October 22, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Budget

$275,000

Revenue

$110,248

Genres

Drama

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