REVANCHE (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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 as an assistant 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.
• Cast: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss, Johannes Thanheiser, Hanno Pöschl, Magdalena Kropiunig, Toni Slama, Elisabetha Pejcinoska, Aniko Bärkanyi, Annamaria Haytö, Nicoletta Prokes, Rainer Gradischnig, Haris Bilajbegovic, Aleksander Reljic-Bohigas, Michael-Joachim Heiss, Günther Laha, Max Schmiedl, Gerhard Liebmann Holzmann, Johannes Zeiler, Andreas Blauensteiner, Martin Aschauer, Sonja Lehninger, Peter Brunner, Thomas Radleff, Alexander Lhotzky, Doris Hindinger, Siegfried Auerböck, German Benedikt, Renate Suppan, Johann Wessner, Julia Schranz, Jana McKinnon, Peter Josch, Linde Prelog, Götz Spielmann
• Director: Götz Spielmann
• Runtime: 2:02
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, The Match Factory
• Media Format: Movie