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Revanche
SHOW DATE: May 31st.
SPEAKER(S): TBA
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In writer/director Götz Spielmann's powerful drama two seemingly divergent storylines intersect and become inextricably linked in unexpected ways. Alex (Johannes Krisch), an ex-con dreaming of a better life, and his girlfriend Tamara (Irina Potapenko), a Ukrainian prostitute, both work in a Vienna brothel, hiding their relationship from the boss. In a country village a few hours away Susanne (Ursula Strauss) and her police officer husband Robert (Andreas Lust) lead a tranquil life, lacking only a child. Desperate to rescue Tamara from her job at the brothel, Alex robs the bank in Robert's village; Robert stumbles across them and a stray bullet leads to accidental murder. Featuring superlative acting in a character-driven story about moral choices and their consequences, Revanche (Revenge) reveals a profound understanding of human nature. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (Fully subtitled)
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SHOW DATE: May 31st.
SPEAKER(S): TBA
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12
SHOW DATE: May 17th.
SPEAKER(S): TBA
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A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. Stepfather took teenager to live with him to Moscow, during Chechnya war, in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia.A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.
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