The Dark Valley Comments

  • Burnice 2022-09-09 16:18:21

    Many German filmmakers are familiar faces. / The photography is very neat, the deep forest with light snow, dark blue and dark gray; in the long winter, the wind and snow cover all traces of sin; spring is near, and freedom is still far away. The flaw is that the rhythm is a little slow, making revenge not happy enough. // PS.1. Paula Bell is as cold as a cypress; 2. On the dimensionality reduction and necessity of advanced gun-making technology (in this sense, this film can be classified as a...

  • Stefanie 2022-09-09 13:47:17

    The story of revenge, the style is very tough, and the snow scene is very...

  • Lukas 2022-09-09 12:54:52

    Complementary standard: The second brush, quite a complete revenge, the soundtrack is good. Anti-tradition, anti-hegemony, punishment for doing bad things, a rare German-Italian...

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The Dark Valley quotes

  • [first lines]

    Luzi: [narrating] Some things may not be spoken of things from the past--from long ago. But this does not mean you can ever forget them. There are things that can never be forgotten.

  • [last lines]

    Luzi: [narrating] He almost died of fever. He was ill for three weeks. Nobody said a thing, though there were many who wanted to chase him away. Or do worse. Old Brenner had sown his seed in every family. And freedom is a gift that not everyone likes to receive.

    Luzi: This year spring came earlier than usual. It was in March, just before noon, when Greider headed off. He looked back one last time. That was the last time I saw him. That day I told Lukas that I was with child. He was pleased and proud, because at last something good had happened.

The Dark Valley

Director: Andreas Prochaska

Language: German,English Release date: February 13, 2014