Criterion Coll: Coup De Grace with Margarethe von Trotta: DVD Cover

    Criterion Coll: Coup De Grace
    a.k.a. Der Fangschuss, Coup De Grace Director: Volker Schlöndorff Cast: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rudiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/27/2003
    • Original Release: 1976
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 6,440

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    Features

    New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions; Interview with Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta; New and improved English subtitle translation; Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Logos/Opening Credits [2:49]
    2. Return From Battle [4:41]
    3. Vestiges of War [5:22]
    4. Lost Causes [5:08]
    5. Crossing the Lines [10:07]
    6. Crossfire [7:00]
    7. Trip to Riga [7:14]
    8. Franz's Dream [8:32]
    9. Air Raid [5:10]
    10. Volkmar Arrives [7:29]
    11. Christmas Eve [6:47]
    12. An Ambush [8:48]
    13. Search for Fugitives [8:27]
    14. Prisonsers [4:58]
    15. A Last Request [4:10]
    1. The Origins of the Film [10:42]
    2. Matthias Habich [2:31]
    3. Mathieu Carrière [1:10]
    4. Marc Eyraud [1:39]
    5. Valeska Gert [3:43]
    6. Igor Luther [4:48]
    7. Henri Colpi and Stanley Myers [2:59]
    8. Jean-Pierre Melville [1:36]
    9. Marguerite Yourcenar [6:57]
    10. The Ending of the Film [6:51]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by Volker Schlondorff. The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Besides her ruinous habit of falling love with men who do not love her, Margarethe's tragic flaw is her refusal to acknowledge the cost of the revolution in terms of human lives. Director Schlondorff tends to dole out symbolism with a steamshovel; still, he effectively conveys his basic thesis that morality and politics invariably cancel each other out, and that to look for "solutions" is tantamount to chasing rainbows. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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