Andreas Prochaska

Andreas Prochaska (b. 1964, Vienna) began working in film as a production runner and eventually established himself as an editor on such films as Michael Haneke's The Castle (Das Schloß, 1997) and Funny Games (1997). In the late 1990s he began directing television movies, often crime dramas. Outside television he gained credit with Dead in Three Days (In 3 Tagen bist du tot, 2006), which clearly showed his inclination towards genre work. The film was screened at numerous international festivals, including Karlovy Vary, and was a giant commercial hit in Austria. He repeated this domestic cinematic success with the madcap comedy The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott (Die unabsichtliche Entführung der Frau Elfriede Ott, 2010). The Dark Valley is his third film.

MFF Karlovy Vary