''Autumn Blood'' is a 2013 English-language Austrian

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film directed by Markus Blunder and starring

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Plot

A mother and her two children, an older sister and a younger brother, witness a man shoot their husband and father. Traumatized, the boy never speaks again. The children grow up and the girl becomes a beautiful young woman, who attracts the attention of some local men. One day while the girl is swimming alone in a natural spring in the mountains a man appears, he rapes her and she staggers back home. While at their home the boy finds that their mother has died in her bed. A while later the men, an older father, his grown son, and his sons friends, come to the house of the children and one of them rapes the girl again. Later, they find out a social worker is making inquiries about the girl at the local post office, because the girl has collected welfare instead of her deceased mother. So the men come to the house with rifles, apparently to kill the girl and boy and a hunt begins. During this hunt for the children one of the men falls to his death, another is killed by his friend, then right before the son shoots the girl the father kills his own son. He then offers the girl his rifle to shoot him, but she refuses to do so.

Cast

as The Girl *Maximilian Harnisch as The Boy *

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as The Mayor * Samuel Vauramo as The Hunter *

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as The Butcher *Tim Morten Uhlenbrock as The Friend *Annica McCrudden as The Social Worker *George Lenz as The Clerk *Nelly Gschwandtner as The Hunter's Wife *

Julia Dietze Julia Dietze (born on 9 January 1981 in Marseille, France) is a French-born German actress. Biography Dietze is the daughter of the Ethnic Germans, German artist, illustrator and painter Mathias Dietze. Her mother is from Marseille. Julia Die ...

as The Butcher's Wife *Hansa Czypionka as The Priest *Jonas Laux as The Father *Jacqueline Le Saunier as The Mother *Hannah Payr as Young Girl *Elias Köfler as Young Boy *Margarete Tiesel as Village Woman

Reception

The film received a 20% rating on

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'' noted that ''Autumn Blood'' "hovers between the allegorical and literal" being at the same time "beautiful and brutal, sparse and lush, primal and modern". The review lauded the film for being "engaging, even haunting" because of its "messy flesh-and-blood characters".

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* * 2013 films English-language Austrian films Austrian thriller films Films set in the Alps Films about siblings Films about orphans Films about rape 2013 thriller films 2010s survival films Austrian independent films 2013 drama films 2010s English-language films English-language adventure films English-language thriller films {{2010s-thriller-film-stub