SYNOPSIS
Winner of the Audience Award at Locarno International Film Festival and from the director of Oscar-winning film, THE COUNTERFEITERS, comes this visually audacious work of Expressionistic cinema. HINTERLAND brings the visual style of post-WWI classics like THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI to the 21st-century through almost exclusive use of blue screen technology.
The year is 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has fallen and what remains has devolved into social unrest and political turmoil. Peter Perg, a soldier of the Great War, returns to Vienna only to realize the place he once called home is now unfamiliar to him. Having spent years as a prisoner of war, Perg is disillusioned by this strange, new city distorted by the nightmares of war. His world is further upended when a gruesome series of murders targeting veterans begins to unfold. Feeling connected to the victims, Perg decides to investigate the mysterious crimes. A stranger in his own city, the looming threat of a serial killer begins to take its toll on him.
HINTERLAND (2021)
Directed by: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Written by: Robert Buchschwenter, Hanno Pinter, Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Murathan Muslu, Max von der Groeben, Liv Lisa Fries, Marc Limpach, Matthias Schweighöfer, Margarethe Tiesel, Aaron Friesz, Maximillian Jadin,
Stipe Ergec
Produced by: Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser, Bady Minck,
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Co-Produced by: Geneviève Lemal, Robert Marciniak
Associate Produced by: Al Munteanu, Lars Wiebe
Cinematography by: Benedict Neuenfels
Genre: Drama
RT: 98 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.39: 1
Sound: 5.1 Dolby Digital
Language: German with English Subtitles
