Synopsis
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.
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Cast
- Murathan MusluPerg
- Liv Lisa FriesKörner
- Marc LimpachRenner
- Max von der GroebenSeverin
- Maximilien JadinHoffmann
- Timo WagnerKrainer
- Aaron FrieszKovacs
- Stipe ErcegBauer
- Trystan PütterGerster
- Germain WagnerStarkenberg
Recommendations
- 85
Film Threat
Its complicated story, hero, and visual style are a great reminder of the beautiful thrillers birthed during the Golden Age of Hollywood, albeit with the help of modern technology to pull it off with a modest indie budget. - 75
Movie Nation
The acting is as immaculate as the digitally-augmented settings. - 70
Screen Daily
It takes a little while to adjust to the film’s strong and deliberately oppressive stylistic approach, but Hinterland successfully avoids being swallowed up by its own aesthetic via the narrative’s propulsive momentum and the magnetic central performance by Muslu. - 60
Variety
As impressive as Homefront is in the way it envisions a distorted world, its fully-realized digital design is all exterior display, whereas Expressionism at its best transforms disturbed psychological states into a nightmarish reality. - 50
The New York Times
If only the story of Hinterland felt as engrossing and alive as its setting.
