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Feb 10, 2010 · Revanche begins with a reflection of trees in a lake at twilight. They’re seen upside down—an image of nature reversed—yet the earth is eerily calm. This almost otherworldly illusion arouses a viewer’s awareness of perspective, which is then disturbed by the splash of an object tossed into the middle of the lake. Widening ripples shatter the impression of stillness, and a genuine sense ...
Box office. $192,451 (US) [2] Revanche is a 2008 Austrian thriller film written and directed by Götz Spielmann. It centers on the ill-fated love story between a Viennese ex-con and a Ukrainian prostitute who get involved in a bank robbery. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2008.
Vengeance of the Zombies: Directed by León Klimovsky. With Paul Naschy, Romy, Mirta Miller, María Kosty. An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.
2008: Europa Cinemas Label Award, C.I.C.A.E. Prize (International Confederation of Art House Cinemas), Femina Film Preis für Bestes Set Design (Berlin) 2008: Best Film (Starnberg) 2008: Jury Award for Best Feature Film (Schwerin) 2008: Best Screenplay, Audience Award (Monterrey) 2009: Nominierung Best Foreign Language Film of the Year 2008 (Oscar)
Revanche demonstrates that ‘genre’ films do not have to play out at a high pitched level to be engrossing and entertaining. Revanche also demonstrates that stillness and quietude can be a positive, aesthetic strategy, which is a breath of fresh air in today’s market of faster is better, with a premium on movies that move.
Feb 11, 2010 · A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, <I>Revanche</I> 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 in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with ...
It received critical acclaim and won a number of awards, and was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Revanche is a 2008 Austrian thriller film written and directed by Götz Spielmann. It centers on the ill-fated love story between a Viennese ex-con and a Ukrainian prostitute who get involved in a bank robbery.
