The Uncle

The Uncle (2022)

Stric

This is going to be the best Christmas ever.

Yugoslavia, late 1980s. Parents and son are hastily making the final preparations for Christmas Eve dinner. Their beloved uncle will be turning up from Germany any minute now. But, hang on, are things really as they seem? An unnerving debut à la Haneke that cleverly balances on the edge of farce and oppressive thriller while ingeniously toying with narrative structure.

Date of release
2022-07-19
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Thriller, Mystery, Horror
Director
David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić

Casting

Interesting facts

The Uncle is a 2022 psychological thriller film written and directed by David Kapac and Andrija Mardešić.

Production

Discussing how they came to the original idea for the film, Kapac and Mardešić said: "We realized that we both envied our friends over one thing, which is that during childhood neither of us had an uncle, or a godfather, who lived outside the country and who'd come every holiday and bring gifts, and our friends did. This was the initial idea.

The roles of the three family members were written with their respective actors in mind, while the role of Uncle was initially envisioned with a younger actor in mind before it was offered to Manojlović.

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