The Territory (1981)
1h 44m
Running Time
September 1, 1981Release Date
Plot.
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.
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Cast & Crew.
Geoffrey Carey
Peter
Paul Getty Jr.
Ron - guide
Jeffrey Kime
Jim
Isabelle Weingarten
Françoise
Camila Mora-Scheihing
Annie - young girl
Raúl Ruiz
Director
João Bénard da Costa
Wanderer #2
Gilbert Adair
Writer
Details.
Release DateSeptember 1, 1981
Original NameO Território
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 44m
Genres
Wiki.
The Territory (Portuguese: O Território) is a 1981 Portuguese philosophical horror film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz about two American families who resort to cannibalism shortly after getting lost on a camping trip in the South of France. The film, about the animalistic nature of humans when they disregard their "civilized" instincts, obliquely addresses themes of "exile and crossing boundaries: of language, nation and morality".