Midnight screening · 43rd Edition
HINTERLAND
Director
Stefan RUZOWITZKY
Country
Austria, Belgium, Germany
Runtime
1 h 39 min
Language
German
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. When he finds out that his comrades were brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice.
Cast
Murathan Muslu, Max von der Groeben, Liv Lisa Fries, Marc Limpach
Screenplay
Robert Buchschwenter, Hanno Pinter, Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producers
Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser, Bady Minck, Alexander - Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
About the Director
The writer and director of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award-winner The Counterfeiters (2007), born in 1961 in Vienna, Austria. He studied theatre, media, film, and history. Started his career by directing music videos, before moving to filmmaking. One of his early feature films, The Inheritors (1998), became a festival hit at Telluride, the New York Film Festival, and Toronto, winning more than twenty international awards. In addition, Ruzowitzky adapted Herman Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund (2020) to film
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