Coup de Grace [Der Fangschuss]

N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlondorff, cinematographer Igor Luther, and other crew members on the set of the 1976 film.

Based on the 1939 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Young left-wing aristocrat Sophie von Reval (von Trotta) sides with the Bolsheviks after being rejected by a young German soldier (Matthias Habich) preparing to fight the Red Army.

The third and final collaboration between husband and wife team Schlondorff and von Trotta (von Trotta here co-writing and starring), before von Trotta would branch off into her own esteemed career as director. Previously, they worked together on "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" (1971), which von Tratt starred in and co-wrote with director Schlondorff, and the New German Cinema masterwork "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975), which they co-wrote and co-directed together.

Set in 1919 Latvia during the Russian Civil War.

12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus, with some creasing at far corners.

Criterion Collection 192.

[Book #149849]