2008 | Austria | Fiction

Revanche

  • German, Russian English, French, Spanish 122 mins
  • Director | Götz Spielmann
  • Writer | Götz Spielmann
  • Producer | Sandra Bohle, Mathias Forberg, Götz Spielmann, Heinz Stussak

STATUS: Released

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A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerizing Johannes Krisch) works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife. With meticulous, elegant direction, Spielmann creates a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption, and a journey into the darkest forest of human nature, in which violence and beauty exist side by side.

Drama Crime Revenge Guilt Redemption
Film Organizations
The Criterion Collection
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