Coup de grâce
(1976)
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Coup de grâce
(1976)
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Matthias Habich | ... |
Erich von Lhomond
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| Margarethe von Trotta | ... |
Sophie de Reval
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Rüdiger Kirschstein | ... |
Conrad von Reval
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Marc Eyraud | ... |
Dr. Paul Rugen
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Bruno Thost | ... | |
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Henry van Lyck | ... |
Borschikoff
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Hannes Kaetner | ... |
Michel
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Franz Morak | ... |
Grigori Loew
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Frederik von Zichy | ... |
Franz von Aland
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Mathieu Carrière | ... |
Volkmar
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Valeska Gert | ... |
Tante Praskovia
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Alexander von Eschwege | ... |
Blankenberg
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Maria Guttenbrunner | ... |
Mutter Loew
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Stephan Paryla | ... |
Sergeant
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A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
In a depopulated part of northeastern Europe, desperate men are fighting a hopeless, pointless war after the Great War has ended. It is the winter of 1919-1920 in Latvia, and the Treaty of Versailles will soon establish the independence of the Baltic states. Schlondorff has taken Yourcenar's novel and made a wonderful mood piece out of it. The acting is great: Matthias Habich is stiff and uncomprehending, Margarethe von Trotta is warm and lively as well as passionately Bolshevik, Valeska Gert, who I also remember from a Louise Brooks silent film, is the half-crazy aunt.
Schlondorff's films are tremendous literary adaptations that stand on their own as film creations. I see the world a little through his eyes, just as I see it through Renoir's, or Bertolucci's, or Altman's.