Revanche is a 2008 Austrian made film by Gotz Spielmann and has been nominated for best foreign film in the 2009 Oscars. It won the much coveted BEST EUROPEAN FILM award and received acclaim in the Berlin film festival.
Large parts of the film were shot in the area round Gföhl and Ottenschlag in the Waldviertel.
“Revenge is a dish best served cold” and Austrian writer/director Gotz Spielmann’s “REVANCHE” (the title means ‘revenge’ in German) is a calculating, brilliantly simple existential thriller goes into the depths of the frigid workings of the human psyche that may trigger the desire for vengeance. Criterion always picks up the best pieces of foreign cinema and “Revanche” doesn’t disappoint. The film puts it focus on its characters, … more