Revanche
Language - German
Genre - Thriller, Drama
**ing - Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko and Andreas Lust
Release - 2008
Revanche is 2009 Oscar nominee from Austria in the best Foreign Film category. Starting off as a erotic and psychological thriller, it evolves into a richly grained study of characters driven and motivated by love, desire, guilt, faith and revenge. Striking an instant chord with the connoisseurs of art-house style cinema, the movie received widespread critical acclaim. Written and directed by Götz Spielmann, Revanche stars Johannes Krisch as Alex, a thuggish soft-hearted second-in-command at a small brothel Cinderella who's madly in love with a Ukrainian prostitute Tamara (Irina Potapenko). Desperately yierning for a new start to their lives, Alex plans to rob a bank to fund their new beginning.
Meanwhile, in the countryside where Alex's old grandfather lives alone in a farm, there's a childless couple of Robert (Andreas Lust) and Susanne (Ursula Strauss), a policeman and his wife. As Alex sets his plan of bank-robbery in action, he is accompanied by Tamara (at her insistence). But things go terribly wrong as Alex and Tamara run into Robert.
A violent tragedy sends the characters into downward spirals of guilt on one hand, and a overwhelming desire for revenge on the other. As Alex decides to lay low at the quiet countryside with his grandfather, Alex and Roberts fate are to get inter-twined once again, igniting Alex's desire for vengeance, seemingly the sole-purpose of his existence. Robert on the other hand battling with demons of his own.
