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.