Snowman's Land

Name: Snowman's Land
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: September 14, 2012
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Eva-Katrin Hermann, Jürgen Rißmann, Reiner Schöne, Thomas Wodianka

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Music Box Films | Release Date: September 14, 2012 | Not Rated

Starring: Eva-Katrin Hermann, Jürgen Rißmann, Reiner Schöne, Thomas Wodianka

Summary: Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After aWalter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed to be a nice, easy holiday job for the hapless pair soon becomes a comically nightmarish fight for survival. (Music Box Films)… Expand

Director: Tomasz Thomson

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Roger Ebert

Sep 26, 2012

I can see what Thomson is getting at and even sort of appreciate it at times; the movie isn't boring, but it meanders and loses track of plot threads. Any feelings we have for the characters is muted because they all richly deserve to die at one another's hands. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 14, 2012

Despite on-point performances (especially from the hilarious Mr. Wodianka), the story (by Tomasz Thomson, who also directs) is too pitted with holes and loose ends to permit the film a bump from meh to marvelous. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Sep 13, 2012

Tonally, Snowman's Land feels like a German throwback to a '90s indie, but without the energy-the pacing is languid to the point of aimlessness. Read full review

The Playlist Gabe Toro

Sep 15, 2012

It is a credit to Snowman's Land that it's plot twists are, for the most part, not entirely predictable, nor do they ever come across as far-fetched. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Sep 13, 2012

The tone here is unhurried and the bursts of violence and narrative played at an aesthetic remove, but the cycles of languor and activity ultimately feel too calculated-the strained overlay of sensationalism onto a desiccated canvas. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Sep 16, 2012

A tonal hodgepodge ever at odds with itself, Tomasz Thomson's unctuous, tongue-in-cheek debut is far too self-satisfied with its jokes for any to really be funny. Read full review

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