REVANCHE

Directed by Götz Spielmann

SATURDAY JANUARY 17 9PM CASTRO

Desperately in love, Tamara, a Ukrainian prostitute, and Alex, her boss’s errand boy, must not reveal their secret relationship, as employees are not permitted to be romantically involved. In order to escape their red-light-district lives and fulfill their passions, Alex and Tamara devise a plan to rob a bank in a remote village. But the robbery goes wrong, and a police officer (Andreas Lust) pursues their getaway car, resulting in tragedy and bloodshed. This calamity leads Alex to take refuge at his grandfather’s desolate farm at the edge of the woods. What follows is a harrowing chain of events that radically alters the lives of everyone involved in the botched robbery.
Set against Vienna’s demimonde and Austria’s rural landscape, REVANCHE is an unsentimental exploration of grief, revenge, longing and love. (Courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival)

Co-sponsored by the AUSTRIAN CONSULATE GENERAL OF LOS ANGELES

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Northern California Premiere

Country
Austria
Year
2008
Run Time
35mm, 121min., German
with English subtitles
Cast
Johannes Krisch
Irina Potapenko
Ursula Strauss
Hannes Thanheiser
Andreas Lust
Hanno Pöschl
Camera
Martin Gschlacht
Screenwriter
Götz Spielmann
Printsource
The Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Email
Finkley@janus.com

Awards
Berlin International Film Festival 2008: Best European Film
Diagonale, Austria 2008: Best Austrian Film
International Filmfestival Monterrey Mexico 2008: Audience Award
Austrian Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film

Director

Götz Spielmann
was born in 1961 in Wels, Austria, and grew up in Vienna, where he studied screenwriting and directing at the Vienna Film Academy. In addition to writing and directing for the stage, he has directed the films FEAR OF THE IDYLL (1994), THE STRANGER (1999, B&B 2001), DAYBREAK (2001), ANTARES (2004) and REVANCHE (2008).