A strange film. The original Colonel Redl was head of Austro-Hungarian military counter-intelligence just before WWI. He was eventually uncovered as a Russian spy, having sold virtually every secret worth having to them.
The film has him as a victim of the politics of a corrupt regime and society. It's not a particularly bad movie, if a little laboured. Klaus Maria Brandauer is good, though, as is the hauntingly beautiful Gudrun Landgrebe as his femme fatal Katalin.
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