The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
The Rebellion
When
Wed 16 Apr 2025
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.
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