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A FILM BY VERONIKA FRANZ & SEVERIN FIALA
(GOODNIGHT MOMMY, THE LODGE)
STARRING ANJA PLASCHG (Soap&Skin)
*Winner, Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear 2024*
*COMING TO SHUDDER ON FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH FOLLOWING
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE ON JUNE 8TH AT TRIBECA FESTIVAL 2024*
"A gripping psychological study by directors operating with formidable command."
- David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"The exquisite filmmaking from co-directors Franz and Fiala casts an unshakably hypnotic spell."
- Jessica Kiang, The New York Times
"Plaschg is raw, direct and affecting, throwing herself into the character’s life and experience
with the kind of passion we are very occasionally privileged to see from first-time actors."
- Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, is proud to announce the streaming debut of THE DEVIL’S BATH, the highly anticipated film from Austrian horror auteurs Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (GOODNIGHT MOMMY, THE LODGE), ahead of its North American premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. The film celebrated its world premiere earlier this year at Berlinale 2024where it won a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Martin Gschlacht’s cinematography. The film also recently garnered eleven nominations for the 2024 Austrian Film Awards including Best Film. Shudder will release THE DEVIL’S BATH this Summer on June 28, 2024.
SYNOPSIS - In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison. Giving a voice to the invisible and unheard women of the rural past; THE DEVIL’S BATH is based on historical court records about a shocking, hitherto unexplored chapter of European history.
TRIBECA FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Press & Industry: Thursday, June 6th at 11:30am - AMC 19th St. East 6
Public Screening 1: Saturday, June 8th at 9:00pm - Village East by Angelika
Public Screening 2: Sunday, June 9th at 9:00pm - AMC 19th St. East 6
Public Screening 3: Thursday, June 13th at 9:15pm - AMC 19th St. East 6
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
VERONICA FRANZ (Writer & Director) studied German and philosophy and worked as a journalist. She has also worked as an artistic collab-orator with Ulrich Seidl since 1997 and co-wrote the screenplays for all of his films including DOG DAYS (2001), IMPORT EXPORT (2007), the PARADISE trilogy (2012/13) and WICKED GAMES – RIMINI SPARTA (2023). In 2003 she also founded the Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH with him.
SEVERIN FIALA (Writer & Director) studied at the Vienna Film Academy. He worked at the Red Cross and celebrated his first success with the award-winning short film ELEPHANT SKIN (2009, co-directed with Ulrike Putzer).
The first collaboration between Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala was the international award-winning documentary KERN (premiere: Locarno Film Festival 2012). This was followed by their first joint feature film GOODNIGHT MOMMY (2014), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, won several awards and was shown at the Oscars as Austria’s entry for Best International Feature Film. A US remake of the film was released internationally by Amazon in 2022 under the same name, starring Naomi Watts. THE LODGE, the directing duo’s first English-language feature film, has a prominent cast including US stars Riley Keough and Jaeden Martell. It celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. The premiere of their period feature film THE DEVIL’S BATH followed in 2024 – an Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, in coproduction with Heimatfilm and Coop99 Filmproduktion.
2024 / Austria, Germany / In German with English Subtitles / 121 mins
