Film: "Colonel Redl" (1985).
The second in a superb trilogy which began with Mephisto and concluded
with Hanussen sees Klaus Maria Brandauer reunited with director Istvan
Szabo for this intelligent, stylishly shot account of the rise and fall of an
ambitious, homosexual soldier in pre-First World War Austria. A rich
psychological study of a man prepared to sublimate his personality for his
career, the film is also about how the railworker's son is never really
accepted by the upper-class military officers. The fate of the real-life Redl
was the subject of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me. In German with
English subtitles.
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