Winner of the Audience Award at the Locarno International Film Festival,
director Stefan Ruzowitzky's (The Counterfeiters) Hinterland uses blue screen tech to take us back to the
Vienna of the 1920s. The film follows a PTSD suffering soldier who takes
it upon himself to track down the serial killer who is targeting the
city's WWI veterans.
Murathan Muslu, Max von der Groeben, Liv Lisa Fries, Marc Limpach,
Matthias Schweighöfer, Margarethe Tiesel, Aaron Friesz, Maximillian
Jadin
and Stipe Ergec star.
Hinterland is on US VOD from October 7th. A UK/ROI release
has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
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.
