HINTERLAND wins the Audience Award at the Locarno Festival

HINTERLANDby director Stefan Ruzowitzky, an Amour Fou Luxembourg co-production (Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu), won the Audience Award at the 74th International Film Festival on Saturday evening. Locarno International Film Festivalin Switzerland.

The film celebrated its world premiere in Locarno on Friday 6 August at the Piazza Grande in front of more than 6,000 cinema-goers and professionals.

The Luxembourg collaborators include Marc Limpach as actor, Uli Simon as head of lighting, Gilbert Degrand as head of sound, Raoul Nadalet for Espera Productions as post-production studio, Alain Goniva as sound engineer and Michel Schillings as head sound mixer, Karoline Maes as production manager and André Fetzer as line producer.

The original music for HINTERLAND was composed by Kyan Bayani, a sound artist and composer from Luxembourg whose projects include feature films and documentaries.

The film, shot for the most part at the Filmland studios in Kehlen, will celebrate its national release in the Grand Duchy in October 2021 in Kinepolis, Utopia and CDAC cinemas.

Synopsis: HINTERLAND is set in Vienna in 1920, in the ruins of the Great War. After seven years as a prisoner of war in Russia, Peter Perg, a former detective, returns to his home town. But Vienna is not the same city. A stranger in a dark world marked by hunger and crime, he is confronted with a murder mystery: one of his comrades, with whom Perg was in Siberia, has been murdered, and he sets out to find the killer and bring him to justice.