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Nov 17, 1976 · Coup de Grâce: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière. A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
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.
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1976 • Germany Starring Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Mathieu Carrière 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.
An adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, "Coup de Grace" has two themes that intersect. One is stark and unhappy tale of unrequited love that becomes obsessive and tinged with hatred. The other is the post-WWI conflict in the Balkans between the remaining German military and aristocracy against the growing Bolshevik movement.
Director Volker Schlöndorff’s 12th film, Coup de Grâce (1976), was set during the post-World War I era in the Baltic provinces near Riga, in which Germans, White Russians, Latvians, Estonians and Bolsheviks fought against each other.
May 26, 2003 · Coup de Grâce places the reader or viewer in conditions of near-civil war that raged in the Baltic provinces near Riga in the early twenties. Radical Bolsheviks, Estonian and Latvian nationalists, German junkers, and White Russians, as well as fortune hunters and volunteer militias, attack each other.
Year: 1976. Original title: Der Fangschuß (Le Coup de grâce). Synopsis: A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.You can watch Coup de grâce through flatrate on the platforms: Criterion Channel,TCM
