• Feature Film
  • Drama

The Dark Valley

A remote high mountain valley towards the end of the 19th century. A stranger, Greider, arrives at a clannish village community and asks if he can take shelter for the winter. He knows the villagers’ gloomy secret. A mysterious series of deaths ensues.

Data

Genre
Drama
Category
Feature Film
Financing
Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format
35 mm, 95 Min
Release
14.02.2014
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
161.855
Co-production

X Filme (DE)

International funding

Business Location Südtirol, Filmfernsehfonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
South Tyrol, Bavaria, Austria
Shooting time
February - June 2013
Completion
Winter 2013/2014
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Salzburg (Wirtschaft)
Credits
Production
ALLEGRO Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria
Helmut Grasser
Director
Andreas Prochaska
Script
Andreas Prochaska, Martin Ambrosch nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Thomas Willmann
DOP
Thomas Kiennast
Editor
Daniel Prochaska
Sound engineer
Dietmar Zuson
Costume design
Natascha Curtius-Noss
Set design
Claus Rudolf Amler
Music
Matthias Weber
Cast
Sam Riley (Greider), Paula Beer (Luzi), Tobias Moretti (Hans Brenner), Clemens Schick (Luis Brenner), Helmuth A. Häusler (Hubert Brenner), Martin Leutgeb (Otto Brenner), Johann Nikolussi (Rudolf Brenner), Erwin Steinhauer (Pfarrer Breisler)
Production manager
Stephanie Wagner
German Title
Das finstere Tal
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF