Radetzkymarsch

original title:
Radetzkymarsch
other titles:
La Marche de Radetzky, Radetzky March
country / year of production:
Austria , Germany , France / 1995
original length:
3x100 min. , color
premiere:
25 December 1994
genre:
history film
based on:
Joseph Roth. Radetzkymarsch. Berlin: Kiepenheuer, 1932.
director:
Axel Corti , Gernot Roll
film script:
Axel Corti , Georges Conchon
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cast (role):
Max von Sydow , Claude Rich , Charlotte Rampling
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place in Vienna during World War I and deals with an aristocratic family. Baron Franz Von Trotta has to carry a difficult fate, because his father was a war hero. Because he can't join the army himself, he sends his unwilling son into this brutal war.
keywords:
youth during wartime , family on both sides of the front , propaganda , resistance, opposition , order and obedience , father-son relationship
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
Helmut Konrad (Hrsg.): Krieg, Medizin und Politik: Der Erste Weltkrieg und die österreichische Moderne. Wien: Passagen-Verl., 2000. ISBN: 3-85165-409-9
remarks:
Won the "Adolf-Grimme-Award" in 1995.
availability:
VHS