Colonel Redl Oberst Redl: The Spy of the Century

by Istvan Szabo, Peter Dobai, John Osborne, Gudrun Landgrebe

$75 · Offered by Royal Books

Hungary: MA-Film, Circa 1985. Film treatment for the 1985 film, here seen under the working title Oberst Redl: The Spy of the Century. Loosely based on John Osborne's 1965 play A Patriot for Me. A dramatization of the life of Alfred Redl, a former peasant and closeted gay man who climbs the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian military, eventually becoming Chief of Military Intelligence. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

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