Hinterland is a 2021 Austrian-Luxembourgish crime thriller film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and starring Murathan Muslu [de] and Liv Lisa Fries.

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Directed by	Stefan Ruzowitzky
Written by	Robert Buchschwenter Hanno Pinter Stefan Ruzowitzky
Produced by	Oliver Neumann Sabine Moser Bady Minck Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu Geneviève Lemal Robert Marciniak
Starring	Murathan Muslu [de] Liv Lisa Fries Marc Limpach
Cinematography	Benedict Neuenfels
Edited by	Oliver Neumann
Music by	Kyan Bayani
Production companies	FreibeuterFilm GmbH AMOUR FOU Scope Pictures Lieblingsfilm
Distributed by	Square One Entertainment Constantin Movie
Release dates	6 August 2021 (2021-08-06) (Locarno) 7 October 2021 (2021-10-07) (Germany)
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	Austria Luxembourg
Language	German

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The film is set in Vienna in 1920, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Former detective Peter Perg returns home after the end of World War I, having spent years as a prisoner of war. After a series of killings of other POWs, he joins forces with forensic doctor Theresa Körner to solve the crimes.

• Murathan Muslu [de] as Peter Perg
• Liv Lisa Fries as Dr. Theresa Körner
• Max von der Groeben as Kommissar Paul Severin
• Marc Limpach as Polizeirat Victor Renner
• Aaron Friesz as Kovacs
• Stipe Erceg as Bauer
• Margarethe Tiesel as Hausmeisterin Subotic
• Matthias Schweighöfer
• Miriam Fontaine as Anna Perg
• Lukas Johne as Vorarbeiter
• Wolfgang Pissecker as Gefängniswärter
• Konstantin Rommelfangen as Sesta
• Fabian Schiffkorn as Polizist
• Eugen Victor as Portier
• Timo Wagner as Oberleutnant Krainer
• Lukas Walcher as Heresmaty
• Trystan Pütter as Rudolf Gerster
• Germain Wagner as Graf von Starkenberg

The film was shot to a large extent with the blue screen technology, the scenes were mainly created on the computer.^[1] In July 2021, a trailer of the film was released.^[2]

The film premiered at the 74th Locarno Film Festival on 6 August 2021 and won Prix du public UBS Award.^[3]

Its German premiere was on 7 October 2021.^[4]