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                      Oberst Redl / Colonel Redl (Istvan Szabo 1985)
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Type.................: Movie
Part Size............: 97,657 kb
Number of Parts......: 77
Compression Format...: RAR
File Validation......: SFV, PAR (12%)
Disk type............: DVD9
Volume size..........: 7.13 GB

Original Format......: PAL
Aspect ratio.........: 1.78:1 (1024x576)
Genre................: Drama, History, Espionage
IMDb Rating..........: 7.5
Movie Information....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089716/
Length...............: 136 min
Audio................: German (DD2.0)
Subtitles............: English (hardcoded)


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Posted by............: hajjam
Posted to............: alt.binaries.dvd.classics
File Name...........: OBERST_REDL


At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic 
with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan 
Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him 
but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry on a lifelong affair, 
though, as she suspects, he has always been in love with her brother. Despite 
Redl's constant fear of exposure as a Jew or a homosexual, he rises to the rank 
of colonel. As the Austro-Hungarian empire crumbles from within in the heady 
days before World War I, he is placed in charge of internal military 
intelligence in Vienna, where he is drawn into the Byzantine schemes of the 
archduke, who may be plotting to start a war. Although he is the implementer 
of the plot, he soon begins to suspect he may also be the scapegoat. The story 
is based on the real life of Redl and on John Osborne's play A PATRIOT FOR ME. 
Brandauer, in the paradoxical role of Redl, the military man with secrets who's 
in charge of investigating others, gives a tremendous performance--the equal of 
his riveting role in MEPHISTO, which, along with HANUSSEN, forms a thematic 
trilogy. Only an actor of Brandauer's superb emotive control could project, in 
almost imperceptibly shifting facial expressions, a palpable sense of a young boy 
who has become a sad man watching an entire empire about to be swept away. 
Director Istvan Szabo brings the sumptuous world of the last days of the Habsburgs 
to life in warm, faded sepia tones while creating a fascinating portrait of a 
man whose life would indirectly change the course of world history. 



Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech and Armin Mueller-Stahl 


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