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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children Movie Release: 1974 DVD Release: 08/15/2006 Format: DVD - Color,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 48 mins Studio: Homevision Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama

Abstract images produced with an electronic video mix -- as well as the surrealist paintings of artist Mati Klarwein -- highlight this adaptation of the literary classic by Herman Hesse. Max von Sydow stars as Harry Haller, a self-absorbed, misanthropic writer contemplating the duality of his nature as both a social outsider disenchanted with the chaos and disorder of the everyday world and an inner "steppenwolf." Planning to commit suicide by the age of 50, Haller seeks a reconciliation of these different aspects of the self, while encountering a mysterious woman who leads him into a magical realm where his efforts to achieve redemption may be realized through a metaphysical transcendence. Whether it is mental illness, narcotics, or an authentically supernatural experience that overtakes Haller remains unclear. Essentially as plotless as Hesse's source novel, Steppenwolf (1974) was mostly memorable for its avant garde visuals, which made it a favorite of youthful audiences seeking hallucinogenic cinematic experiences such as those in the final half hour of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Max von Sydow - Harry
Dominique Sanda - Hermine
Pierre Clémenti - Pablo
Carla Romanelli - Maria
Roy Bosier - Aztec
Alfred Baillou - Goethe
Judith Mellics - Rosa
Niels-Peter Rudolph - Gustav