The Dark Valley

OT: Das finstere Tal | Feature Film | Co-Production | 2014

Award-winning, intense and opulent Western drama starring Sam Riley and Tobias Moretti!

A remote mountain valley, end of the 19th century. A stranger named Greider rides into town and asks the sworn community for quarter over the winter.The villagers are not aware that he knows their bloody secret. A mysterious chain of murders begins.

Awards:

• Bayerischer Filmpreis 2013 (Bavarian film award) : Best Director and best cast (Tobias Moretti)
• Deutscher Filmpreis 2014(German film award): Outstanding feature film in silver, Best Cast (Tobias Moretti), Best Camera (Thomas W. Kiennast), Best production design(Claus Rudolf Amler), Best costume design (Natascha Curtius-Noss), Best make up (Helene Lang, Roman Braunhofer), Best film score (Matthias Weber), Best sound design (Dietmar Zuson, Christof Ebhardt, Tschangis Chahrokh); nominated for „Best Director“
• Österreichischer Filmpreis 2015 (Austrian film award): Best feature film, Best director, Best camera (Thomas W. Kiennast), Best production design(Claus Rudolf Amler), Best costume design (Natascha Curtius-Noss), Best make up (Helene Lang, Roman Braunhofer), Best film score (Matthias Weber), Best sounddesign (Dietmar Zuson, Christof Ebhardt)
• 2014 nominated as austrian candidate for the oscars in the category „best film in a foreign language“ by the Austrian Film Commission.

Facts:

Kinostart: 20. Februar 2014
Verleih: X Verleih

Crew:

Production Company: X Filme Creative Pool , Allegro Film
Producer: Helmut Grasser, Stefan Arndt
Coproduction: SamFilm, ZDF, ORF
Distributor: X Verleih
Screenplay: Martin Ambrosch & Andreas Prochaska
Director: Andreas Prochaska
Based upon the novel written by Thomas Willmann
Line Producer: Katharina Bogensberger
DoP: Thomas W. Kiennast
Cutter: Daniel Prochaska
Music: Matthias Weber
Production Design: Claus Rudolf Amler
Costume Design: Natascha Curtius-Noss
Make-Up: Helene Lang & Roman Braunhofer
Casting: Nicole Schmied, Nessie Nesslauer
Editor: Heinrich Mis, ORF & Daniel Blum, Reinhold Elschot, ZDF