Synopsis
Colonel Redl (Oberst Redl, 1985) is a historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by István Szabó with Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alfred Redl — an Austrian intelligence chief who spied for Russia and shot himself in 1913, weeks before the continent began falling apart.
Raised in poverty, Redl spent decades erasing every trace of who he was: his peasant roots, his sexuality, his loyalties. He climbed to the top of Austro-Hungarian military intelligence through sheer will and self-concealment — and the same things he hid gave his blackmailers exactly what they needed. Armin Mueller-Stahl plays his fellow officer and classmate, the one person who watched the whole transformation from provincial cadet to celebrated traitor.
Szabó's film is less interested in spy mechanics than in what an empire does to the people who serve it. Two and a half hours that treat the collapse of one man as a quiet preview of the collapse of a civilization. Stream Colonel Redl (1985) online on iFILM.
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