Stefan Ruzowitzky’s full-blown Expressionist take on the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire uses a gruesome police procedural to delve into the trauma following World War I.
to conceive of a gritty Expressionist detective-thriller set in the aftermath of World War I, shot almost entirely on blue screen. Whether it’s also fully successful is open for debate. Thematically, the idea was to tackle the impotent rage of the Austro-Hungarian patriarchy whose fanatical belief in Emperor and Empire went up in smoke when the Armistice brushed aside the monarchy and reduced the territory to a state of near insignificance.
It’s best to pass over the opening, in which the camera closes in on a glowering Peter Perg silhouetted against a starry sky accompanied by a sententious voiceover, all seemingly lifted from an overdramatic superhero movie. The story properly starts in a boat on the Danube, as a troupe of exhausted, demoralized soldiers come home following two years as prisoners of war in a Russian camp . They’ve returned to a shattered, defeated nation where their service is treated with contempt.
Into the mix comes junior detective Paul Severin , hyped up on superficial Marxist ideology and convinced that anyone associated with the past is rotten. Perg’s situation in his old department is precarious until he’s able to connect the dots between a series of gruesome murders, the victims all former comrades from the prison camp.
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