Colonel Redl Movie Review 1984

Absorbing, intricately rendered psychological study of an ambitious officer's rise and fall in pre-WWI Austria. Brandauer is excellent as the vain, insecure homosexual ultimately undone by his own ambition and his superior officer's smug loathing. Muller-Stahl and Landgrebe are particularly distinguished among the supporting players. The second in the Szabo/Brandauer trilogy, after "Mephisto" and before "Hanussen." In German with English subtitles.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 142 minutes.
Originally from German, Hungarian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Gays, Period Piece: 1900s, 4 Bones

Screenplay

Laszlo Szabo, Peter Dobai

Cast

Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Jan Niklas, Hans-Christian Blech, Laszlo Mensaros, Andras Balint

Cinematography

Lajos Koltai

Director

Laszlo Szabo

Music

Zdenko Tamassy

Producer

Mafilm

Awards

British Acad. 1985: Foreign Film; Cannes 1985: Special Jury Prize.