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EVANCHE (2008)


Criterion Collection # 502

DVD RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 20Oostenrijk
Drama
121 minuten

geregisseerd door Götz Spielmann
met Johannes Krisch, Andreas Lust en Irina Potapenko

Alex is als assistent en chauffeur werkzaam voor de bordeeleigenaar Konecny. Hij heeft een geheime affaire met Tamara, een Oekraïense prostituee. Allebei willen ze aan het leven in en rond het bordeel ontsnappen.

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Director: Gotz Spielmann


Description
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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 Gotz 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.

READ:
Revanche: Revival of the Fittest
by Armond White
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Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.26 + 7.06 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 122 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Anamorphic Widescreen 

Sound (main feature): German DD5.1

Subtitles: optional English


DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Gotz Spielmann.
# New video interview with Spielmann.
# The Making of 'Revanche,' a half-hour documentary shot on the set.
# Foreign Land (Fremdland), Spielmann's award-winning student short film, with an introduction by the director.
# U.S. theatrical trailer.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.



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