Year
1955
Language
English spoken, no subtitles
Director
Charles Laughton
Duration
92 min
A dark, fairytale-like thriller that balances between nightmare and poetry, carried by a chilling performance from Robert Mitchum as the false preacher Harry Powell.
We follow two children who flee when Powell, a charismatic but ruthless religious fanatic, invades their family in search of hidden money.
The Night of the Hunter is celebrated for its haunting visual beauty. Its stark black-and-white cinematography, expressionist lighting, and highly stylized sets that evoke gothic symbolism and German Expressionism, elevate the film from thriller to visual allegory, making it one of the most aesthetically distinctive works in classical American cinema.
8:00 PM - 9:52 PM
€ 13.00
Camera 5
During the Cinematic Beauty film programme, we take you on a journey through seven beautiful classics from around the world, each of which sheds a different light on beauty. What is the purpose of beauty in these films, and how does it contribute to what a film wants to tell us? In collaboration with a team of film scholars from the University of Groningen, Cinematic Beauty seeks answers to these questions.
