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Mar 4, 2010Our own Eric Skillman, who has crafted the covers for numerous releases over the years (including Red Beard, Yi Yi, The . . .
Austria
2008
122 minutes
Color
1.85:1
German
502
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.
| Alex | Johannes Krisch |
| Tamara | Irina Potapenko |
| Susanne | Ursula Strauss |
| Robert | Andreas Lust |
| Hausner | Hannes Thanheiser |
| Konecny | Hanno Pöschl |
| Director | Götz Spielmann |
| Cinematography | Martin Gschlacht |
| Producer | Sandra Bohle, Mathias Forberg, Götz Spielmann and Heinz Stussak |
| Screenplay | Götz Spielmann |
| Sound | Heinz Ebner |
| Editing | Karina Ressler |
| Production Design | Maria Gruber |
| Costumes | Monika Buttinger |
| Makeup | Susanne Weichesmiller |
| Casting | Rita Waszilovics |
| Sound editor | Bernhard Bamberger |
| Production manager | Stephanie Wagner |
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Our own Eric Skillman, who has crafted the covers for numerous releases over the years (including Red Beard, Yi Yi, The . . .
The name Götz Spielmann is still unknown to many North American movie watchers, but if reviews of Criterion’s release of his Oscar-nominated drama Revanche are any indication, this commanding Austrian filmmaker won’t remain in the shadows much longer. At Film.com, http://www . . .
Revanche begins with a reflection of trees in a lake at twilight. They’re seen upside down—an image of nature reversed—yet the earth is eerily calm. This almost otherworldly illusion arouses . . .
Mark your calendars: Janus Films and the Criterion Collection’s theatrical release Revanche opens next Friday, May 1, in New York, Seattle, and Boston, and the early press is awesome. Götz Spielmann got a rave for his tense, thrilling drama from no less an authority than auteurist kingmaker . . .
Last fall the Criterion Collection and Janus Films joined forces to acquire a first-run film for theatrical distribution—a rare move for two companies best known for handling the classics of cinema history. Revanche, both an existential thriller and a quiet, character-driven rumination . . .
Goetz Spielmann’s Revanche, a 2008 festival favorite and Austria’s submission for the best foreign film Oscar, has found a North American home with sister companies Janus Films and the Criterion Collection. In a rare step into the first-run business, Janus will launch the thriller theatrically . . .
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