The Twelve Months of the Summer

A number of ordinary people meets to work in a secret project for one year. They don’t know where they are or what they actually work with, but the snowy winter they left behind has transformed into hot summer. They get 10 years salary for one year in the camp. All of them have different reasons for taking the job. At the welcome meeting, the foreman explains the conditions: “No questions. Just work. No one is allowed to leave the camp or he looses the job on the spot”. The workers start to build odd funny buildings in a holiday setting with blue sky and bright sunshine. But something is terribly wrong in the camp. Something is going on. Hobert uses minimal effects and background music. The filming technique is excellent. Hobert doesn’t force messages and ideas on us. Rather he invites to contemplation on a theme that can never be outdated. It is about the human being and the reality that it never will understand completely. Because of this, the movie couldn’t really have been made in another way. —IMDb