TY - ADVS AU - Volker Schlöndorff AU - Volker Schlöndorff AU - Marguerite Yourcenar AU - Geneviève Dormann AU - Jutta Brückner AU - Margarethe von Trotta AU - Matthias Habich AU - Rüdiger Kirschstein TI - Der Fangschuss: Coup de Grâce AV - PN1997 .F364 1976 PY - 2003/// CY - West Germany PB - Argos Films, Bioskop Film, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), The Criterion Collection N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1976. Special features include: - Interview with Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. Based on Marguerite Yourcenar's novel "Coup de grâce" N2 - From case cover: Latvia, 1919: the end of the Russian Civil War. An aristocratic young woman (brilliantly played by Margarethe von Trotta) becomes involved with a sexually repressed Prussian soldier. When she is rejected by her would-be lover, the young woman is sent into a downward sprial of psychosexual depression, promiscuity, and revolutionary collaboration. A startling tale of the heartbreak and violence set against the backdrop of bloody revolution, Volker Schlöndorff's Coup de Grâce is a powerful film that explroes the interrelation of private passion and political commitment ER -