DVD, Digital Release: Hinterland

Digital, DVD Release Date: Dec. 13, 2022
Price: DVD $22.99
Studio: Film Movement


Winner of the Audience Award at Locarno International Film Festival and from the Stefan Ruzowitzky, the director of Oscar-winning film, The Counterfeiters, comes the stylish noir thriller Hinterland.

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.

Here’s a breakdown of the bonus features: 

  • Commentary by director Stefan Ruzowitzky,
  • VFX Featurettes
  • Bonus Short Film Haute Cuisine(Directed by Meryl Roche | France | French with English Subtitles | 24 minutes) — While toiling away in the highly competitive kitchen of a top-rated restaurant, Marie (Joséphine Japy) inadvertently discovers a strange new ingredient that wins her the admiration of the chef but with frightening consequences.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.