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The Rebellion (1993)

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The Rebellion

Michael Haneke | Austria | 1993 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 16 Apr 2025

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This television adaptation of Joseph Roth’s 1924 novel captures the existential abandonment that accompanies the societal neglect of a disabled World War I veteran (Branko Samarovski) who experiences a litany of degradations.

Haneke’s bleak, Dostoyevskian worldview meshes well with the Kafkaesque indignities inflicted upon the doomed hero, evoking a sense that the long European humanist project is approaching an apocalyptic endpoint, with fascism the inevitable conclusion for a people addicted to obedience. An important companion piece to The White Ribbon.

Format: DCP
Language: German with English subtitles
Source: Umbrella
Courtesy: Umbrella
Runtime: 106 mins

Event duration

106 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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