Colonel Redl

• Klaus Maria Brandauer: Colonel Alfred Redl
• Hans Christian sheet: Colonel, later General of Roden
• Gudrun Landgrebe: Katalin Kubinyi
• January Niklas: Kristof Kubinyi
• László Mensáros: Colonel Ruzitska
• András Bálint: Dr. Gustav sunshine
• László Gálffi: Alfredo Velocchio
• Dorottya Udvaros: Clarissa
• Károly Eperjes: Lieutenant Jaromil Schorm
• Róbert Rátonyi: Baron Ullmann

Colonel Redl is a film directed by István Szabó from 1985, which originated in German - Austro- Hungarian co-production. The film, which is about the life of Colonel Alfred Redl from Austria - Hungary, had its premiere on February 20, 1985 in Hungary and in Germany on 29 March of the same year. The production received at the international level good reviews and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award and a Golden Globe in the category respectively.

Action

Alfred Redl comes from a poor background, but it creates a result of his industry, in the military school of the Imperial Monarchy to be recorded. There he quickly finds friends: Baron Kubinyi Kristof and his sister Katalin. Full of ambition Redl will also be included in this top layer and does as an officer career. Shortly before the First World War, he was stationed as a captain at the Austria - Hungarian border. He is helped by his superior, Colonel von Roden. Back in Vienna, Katalin becomes his lover, but he admits that from their relationship, nothing can be because he has fallen in love with her ​​brother.

The Empire is about to ruin, and Redl wants to prove himself. In his ambition he creates unpleasant opponents aside, but it raises a new one. After being promoted to colonel, he imagines himself the goal of his dreams, but his enemies plotting against him.

However, the film is not an authentic representation of the person Redls or historical events. This is explicitly stated in the preamble, which states:

"We do not tell Colonel Redl's story of authentic documents. All actions of the characters are fictitious. Our work was inspired by John Osborne's play A Patriot for Me and of the historical events of our century. "

Reviews

According to the dictionary of the International film of the " model case of a fictitious political biography [ ... ] to a multi-layered cinematic discourse on political morality, careerism, power, loss of identity, subservience, trust and betrayal under the conditions of military hierarchies and authoritarian systems. " Serves at the same time forms " the centerpiece of a trilogy in which István Szabó treated Colonel Redl by Mephisto and before Hanussen related topics from the history of Europe. In all three films Klaus Maria Brandauer impressed in the lead role. "

Film critic Wolfram Schütte called István Szabó a " brilliant traditionalists of the classical European narrative cinema ", which is also here, " the charm of the old cinema and its history spell [ ... ] knows how to handle with elegance and loving penchant for atmospheric effects. " Just like Mephisto go there the director is not about the historical figure and their reality, but those " type, which makes in coercive political systems career and is confronted by their inhumane price. " it bribe not only be sovereign narrative style, but the " sensitive attention to the finest nuances of power, for the structure and system of signs of a jammed because unresolved male universe of mutual violence. "Based on self-abnegation, adaptation, and loyalty to the power, promote shades of a paternalistic Divide et impera an ambition to light, " the walk over corpses and masses of them produced. "With recognizable borrowings from Joseph Roth's literary swan song Radetzkymarsch wide the director in his film " the historical ambience, the rites of the military and bureaucracy, the class, race and caste in the Habsburg monarchy, "and give it the historical model to recognize " the physiognomy of social mechanisms ", which are gone down with the Dual Monarchy no means, Schütte wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau.

" The Redl plays, as was the " Mephisto " in Szabo's last film, actor Klaus Maria Brandauer. And he can be quite slow, its center quite sure to be behind the blunt, bossy repellent mask of a man who has decided to rather feared than loved, come forth the gruesome pathology of self-hatred: fills The expanding, always gähnendere vacuum in it Only the Kaiser- delusion. "

Awards

• At the International Film Festival of Cannes 1985 István Szabó was awarded the Special Jury Prize. In addition, the film was in competition for the Golden Palm.
• At the German Film Prize to the film, the film tape 1985 awarded Gold for Best Feature Film. In addition, Klaus Maria Brandauer received an award for Best Actor.
• 1986, the film won a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
• Colonel Redl was nominated in the same year for Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe and an Oscar, but lost each Luis Puenzos The official history.