The Hitchhiker

by Ivar Leon Menger · Germany 2004

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Unsettling story of a student who picks up a hitchhiker before reports that an escaped psychopath is on the loose come to light. Who is his mystery passenger?

After 19-year-old Tobias picks up a hitchhiker in his dad's Jag, radio reports warn of an escaped psychopath from a local prison and that drivers should not stop for anyone. Tobias starts to get suspicious of his passenger who becomes increasingly erratic as the journey progresses. Tensions are high and conversation between the two becomes awkward and disjointed. When the pair are stopped at a police roadblock designed to catch the escapee, events take a dramatic twist.

   

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2004: Fantasy Filmfest München - Frankfurt - Köln - Berlin - Hamburg - Stuttgart / 2005: Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival

Script: Ivar Leon Menger
Camera: Bernd Wondollek
Editor: Sören Görth
Music: Denis Androic
Producer: Element E Filmproduktion GmbH / Bernd T. Hoefflin
Cast: Justus von Dohnányi, Fabian Busch, Timo Dierkes

»German director Ivar Leon Menger's brooding claustrophobic horror short is the tale of a Hamburg teen unlucky enough to pick up a blood-soaked hitchhiker just before the radio announces an escaped psychotic on the loose. Is his eccentric, taunting passenger just keen to mess with his mind, or also with his entrails? Menger puts some cunning narrative spin on this tired old urban myth, by hiding a gobsmacking final twist under the blithely blood-chilling performance of Justus Von Dohnanyi, as the mysterious traveller...«
(film.guardian.co.uk/cybercinema) 

The Hitchhiker was added to our catalog on Friday 07 March, 2008.