“Hinterland” – Homeland [MOVIE REVIEW]
The figure of a lone elongated man photographed as though a painting by Egon Schiele or Max Oppenheimer, on a dark palette without background, gets closer and closer. Color and tone create the setting, looking very much like the post-apocalyptic World War I paintings of Otto Dix and Georg Grosz. It is 1920. The war to end all wars has ended and soldiers are still drifting home to a world that has been changed forever. Disoriented, our protagonist informs us that he had left to defend the Austro-Hungarian Empire only to return to the now small, insignificant country of Austria. The Emperor has been deposed and anarchy, fascism, communism, and pacifism are battling for the soul of what’s left. Murathan Muslu as Peter Perg in “Hinterland.” Photo courtesy of Film Movement. Peter Perg has found his way home from a Soviet prisoner of war camp with what remains of his small group of comrades. Lost, they have nowhere to go and little that awaits them. They scatter; Perg to his empty mansion, the others to homeless shelters or the streets. Perg’s wife and child, unaware that he survived, left the city long ago. But timelines and circumstances are about to get messy. No sooner have Perg and…
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