#192: SCHLÖNDORFF, Volker: Coup de Grâce (1976)
SCHLÖNDORFF, Volker (Germany)
Coup de Grâce [1976]
Spine #192
DVD
DVD
Latvia, 1919: the end of the Russian Civil war. An aristocratic young woman (brilliantly played by Margarethe von Trotta) becomes involved with a sexually repressed Prussian soldier. When she is rejected by her would-be lover, the young woman is sent into a downward spiral of psychosexual depression, promiscuity, and revolutionary collaboration. A startling tale of heartbreak and violence set against the backdrop of bloody revolution, Volker Schlöndorff's Coup de Grâce is a powerful film that explores the interrelation of private passion and political commitment.
98 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
in German and French
1:77:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2003
Director/Writers
Volker Schlöndorff was 37 when he directed Coup de Grâce.
Screenplay by Jutta Brückner, Geneviève Dormann and Margarethe von Trotta.
From the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar.
Screenplay by Jutta Brückner, Geneviève Dormann and Margarethe von Trotta.
From the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar.
Other Schlöndorff films in the Collection:
#279: Young Törless (1966)
#914: Baal (1970)
#234: The Tin Drum (1979)
The Film
The Extras
The Booklet
Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay excerpted and adapted from Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis’ Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the “Movie-Appropriate.”
Commentary
None.
Interview
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