Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries, and Matthias Schweighofer star in 'Hinterland,' about a serial killer hunting down traumatized soldiers in 1920s Vienna. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief But ...

Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters, Netflix series Barbarians) is set to direct the thriller Ice Fall, produced by Arclight Films and Addam Bramich. Arclight is handling international rights and ...

Stefan Ruzowitzky, who won an Oscar for “The Counterfeiters,” is at the Locarno Film Festival on Friday for the world premiere in the iconic Piazza Grande venue of his crime thriller “Hinterland.” He ...

Oscar nominee Clive Owen (“Children of Men,” “Closer”) is set to play a police office in Germany on the brink of WWII in historical thriller “Kristallnacht.” The feature — being launched at the ...

Cineuropa: Your animated intro brought German Expressionism to mind. But you have embraced this aesthetic throughout the whole movie! Stefan Ruzowitzky: The other day, I did an interview with an ...

Near the beginning of The Counterfeiters, a fact-based Holocaust drama by Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, we meet Jewish money forger and former jailbird Salomon Sorowitsch (brilliantly played ...

“The Counterfeiters” is the bread and butter of the Academy, not to mention film festival audiences everywhere, and as such, seems to have been designed solely to win plaudits: a Holocaust drama that ...

The lead character, Russian Jew Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch (Karl Marcovics) is a professional criminal counterfeiter whose detective nemesis, Herzog (Devid Striesow) recruits him during the war, and ...

The engrossing but unworthy winner of this year’s Foreign Language Oscar, Austria’s The Counterfeiters is a perfect example of Academy voters confusing a great premise for a great film and again ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Hinterland” centers on a former Austrian prisoner of war, Peter Perg, who returns home to Vienna in 1920. Everything has changed.