The Dark Valley

The Dark Valley
The Dark Valley
	Film poster
Directed by	Andreas Prochaska
Screenplay by	Martin Ambrosch; Andreas Prochaska
Based on	Das finstere Tal by Thomas Willmann
Produced by	Stefan Arndt; Helmut Grasser
Starring	Sam Riley
Cinematography	Thomas W. Kiennast
Edited by	Daniel Prochaska
Music by	Matthias Weber
Production; companies	X-Filme Creative Pool; Allegro Film; SanFilm Produktion; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; Österreichischer Rundfunk
Distributed by	Filmladen; (Austria); X Verleih AG; (Germany)
Release dates	10 February 2014 (Berlin); 14 February 2014 (Austria);
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	Austria; Germany
Languages	German; English

The Dark Valley (German: Das finstere Tal) is a 2014 Austrian-German Western drama film directed by Andreas Prochaska, based on Thomas Willmann's sole eponymous 2010 novel. The film stars Sam Riley as a lone traveler who ends up in a small town in the Alps, finding corruption and tyranny running rampant. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.^[1]^[2]

^ "Österreich schickt "Das finstere Tal" ins Oscar-Rennen". kurier. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
^ "Austrian 'Western' Oscar candidate". The Local. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

[kurier-1] "Österreich schickt "Das finstere Tal" ins Oscar-Rennen". kurier. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

[TheLocal-2] "Austrian 'Western' Oscar candidate". The Local. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

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