Revanche
In a desperate attempt to improve life for his prostitute girlfriend, Tamara, ex-con Alex returns to a life of crime and robs a bank. He plans to flee to the South with his girl after the robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
11 June 1977, Klagenfurt, Austria
29 April 1970
20 March 1967, Vienna, Austria
4 December 1925, Vienna, Austria
1986
2 July 1949, Vienna, Austria
July 01, 2013
"It works because Spielmann has established that we're not watching belabored dramatic trajectories collide, but an encounter between two people in miles-away mindsets."
June 15, 2011
Austria's nominee for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is a precise and effective psychological thriler
November 05, 2009
There's real biblical tragedy, and redemption, in Spielmann's fine, sad, suspenseful film.
May 06, 2010
Gotz Speilmann's film is well-made, aptly characterised and seems frighteningly true to life.
August 07, 2009
Writer-director Gotz Spielmann (Antares) avoids the clutter and manipulation of most thrillers, escalating tension almost solely through the characters' turbulent emotions.
January 22, 2010
The plot might have yielded a generic erotic thriller if Revanche were made by rougher hands. Instead it becomes something more sophisticated thanks to the efforts of writer-director Götz Spielmann and a superb cast.
August 06, 2009
Revanche involves a rare coming together of a male's criminal nature and a female's deep needs, entwined with a first-rate thriller.
August 14, 2009
A film of carefully strained pulp and rigorously controlled intrigue, the Austrian revenge drama Revanche, which is really about the dividing line between vengeance and forgiveness, belongs to a neo-noir universe where all the classical genre laws apply.
June 18, 2012
Impressive noir film that befits Greek tragedy as it travels deep into sublime territory.
May 06, 2010
More character study than thriller (the title means "revenge"), this slow-burning Austrian film effectively holds our interest with its unpredictable plot, even though it's not easy to care where it's going.
January 22, 2010
A surprisingly unruffled tale of love, thievery, murder and revenge.
July 13, 2010
Here justice moves slowly, and in mysterious ways - and Spielmann's final reckoning of accounts, though unexpected, is subtly satisfying.
