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Director: Andreas Prochaska Screenplay: Martin Ambrosch, Andreas Prochaska based on the novel by Thomas Willmann. Cinematography: Thomas W. Kiennast Score: Matthias Weber. Austria/Germany, 2014, 114 min. German with English subtitles, digital. Starring: Sam Riley, Paula Beer, Tobias Moretti, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Carmen Gratl, Thomas Schubert
Prochaska’s adaptation of Thomas Willmann’s best-selling novel brings the conventions of the best American vengeance Westerns to an entirely new setting.
In the late nineteenth century, a small and secluded alpine village harbors dark secrets. At the onset of winter, a stranger named Greider (Sam Riley) arrives in the isolated valley on horseback, carrying a camera, with which he wishes to photograph the valley and its people.
Greider is met with distrust by the villagers who are led by the sons of Old Brenner, the brutal patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways. With a bag of gold coins, Greider buys temporary lodging and he soon settles in for the bleak winter. Before long, the villagers suspect that the stranger has motives beyond photographing the valley.
A series of mysterious and increasingly brutal deaths exposes a terrible tradition that keeps the villagers under Old Brenner’s control, as well as Greider’s connection to this remote valley.
SELECT AWARDS:
- Bavarian Film Award 2013: Best Director
- German Film Award 2014: Best Feature Film (Silver)
- German Film Award 2014: Best Score
- German Film Award 2014: Best Makeup
- German Film Award 2014: Best Costume Design
- German Film Award 2014: Best Sound Editing
- German Film Award 2014: Best Production Design
- German Film Award 2014: Best Cinematographer
- German Film Award 2014: Best Supporting Actor
Presented with the support of the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles, and Filmmovement
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