Coup de Grâce (1976) poster
1976 · drama · war · historical

Coup de Grâce

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff1h 35m1976
ElsewhereIMDb6.91kTMDB6.427
  • heavy
  • measured
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
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Heavy, measured, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

Our read · Coup de Grâce (1976) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · war · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a restrained arthouse drama of unrequited love and revolution in 1919 Baltic.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harmgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want war action or hopeful love stories without political bleakness.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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