When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice. Shot almost exclusively on blue screen, this breathtaking study on the traces of toxic masculinity in Europe’s historical past creates an exciting balance between this hard, loud, brutal man's world and the complex soul landscapes of our protagonists with their existential wounds.
Hinterland
Hinterland
62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Script: Hanno Pinter, Robert Buchschwenter, Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Cinematography: Benedict Neuenfels
- Editing: Oliver Neumann
- Sound: Alain Goniva, Nils Kirchhoff, Michel Schillings
- Music: Kyan Bayani
- Actors: Murathan Muslu, Max von der Groeben, Liv Lisa Fries, Marc Limpach, Matthias Schweighöfer, Margarethe Tiesel, Aaron Friesz
- Production: FreibeuterFilm Austria, Amour Fou Luxembou
- Producers: Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
- Co-production: Scope Pictures Belgium, Lieblingsfilm Germany
- Co-producers: Geneviève Lemal, Robert Marciniak
- Costumes: Uli Simon
- Production Design: Andreas Sobotka, Martin Reiter, Oleg Prodeus
- Make Up: Helene Lang
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Austria, Luxemburg
- Production Year: 2021
- Duration: 99'
- Contact: Beta Cinema
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stefan Ruzowitzky was born in 1961 in Vienna, Austria. Raised in Düsseldorf, Germany, he studied theater, media, film, and history. He started his career by directing music videos for bands like The Scorpions, No Mercy, and Justin Timberlake (nomination “Best Video,” MTV USA). 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. Anatomy (2000) became the highest-grossing German genre movie ever. After directing the strong box office performer and children's movie Lilly the Witch (2009) and Cold Hell (2017), Ruzowitzky started working in the US, where he directed Deadfall (2012) and co-created series like 8 Days (2019) and The Barbarians (2020). His film The Counterfeiters (2007) won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Filmography
1998 The Inheritors
2000 Anatomy
2007 The Counterfeiters
2009 Lilly the Witch
2012 Deadfall
2017 Cold Hell
2020 Narcissus and Goldmund
2021 Hinterland
