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Revisited the second film from the German trilogy of Istvan Szabo - Colonel Redl / Oberst Redl, 1984. The basis again is the story of a real character - Colonel Alfred Redl, who served in counterintelligence, but largely revised, although completely realistic his biography, in principle, and does not exist, the facts are quite different, in this case, the play was taken as a basis for John Osborne. In this film, we see how, thanks to a poem dedicated to the emperor, written by him in school, Redl begins his progress - first to the military school and academy, which he graduated with honors, and then in military service, until finally, always promoted him high-ranking military von Rodin promoted him to counterintelligence, where he successfully served further, considered an impeccable military. As a child, he became friends with people from the aristocratic Kubini family – Christophe, with whom he studied at the military school, and his sister Catalin, whom he allegedly later loved all his life. This friendship did him no good service. Being suspected of homosexuality (and the real Redl was a homosexual and was not married), Redl marries, but does not have children. After his patron von Rodin was dismissed, Redl quickly finds out that the heir to the throne, who leads the army, dislikes him, and then his troubles begin, he realizes that the heir wants to get rid of him. In the film, the case against Redl, accused of treason, is clearly fabricated, and quite incomprehensible, in fact, it is known that he was a double agent and worked for Russian and possibly Italian intelligence, after his death, large sums of money were discovered in his account. In the film, he is forced to commit suicide, in fact, he seems to have suggested this option himself when he was exposed. In principle, the film is not bad, if you do not find fault, Klaus Maria Brandauer, as always, is good in the lead role, but the script is slightly lame in places when she watched the first time, she did not pay much attention to this. The story of Colonel Redl was quite popular, Szabo's film was already the fifth film about him, and the second in the play of Osborne.