The Dark Valley

The Dark Valley
Film poster
Directed byAndreas Prochaska
Screenplay byMartin Ambrosch
Andreas Prochaska
Based onDas finstere Tal by Thomas Willmann
Produced byStefan Arndt
Helmut Grasser
StarringSam Riley
CinematographyThomas W. Kiennast
Edited byDaniel Prochaska
Music byMatthias Weber
Production
companies
Distributed byFilmladen
(Austria)
X Verleih AG (though Warner Bros.)
(Germany)
Release dates
  • 10 February 2014 (2014-02-10) (Berlin)
  • 14 February 2014 (2014-02-14) (Austria)
Running time
115 minutes
CountriesAustria
Germany
LanguagesGerman
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.