Michael Haneke
Overview of films
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Benny’s Video
Benny is an intelligent, rather lonely boy aged about 14. His parents have enough money, but not much time for their child. So Benny seeks refuge in his hobby: video. He spends much of his time in his room, which is packed with equipment. Literally cut off from the outside world in his darkened room, […]
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Wer war Edgar Allen?
Film version of the book by Peter Rosei. The action is set in a ghostly and dreamy Venice. The leading character is a spoilt and melancholy student who has settled into a hovel. The student’s life is the city. He does some drawing but drinks more and also uses drugs. The boundary between delusion and […]
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Fraulein
Fraulein was also made for television, but this didn;t stop Haneke shooting it in black & white and 35 mm film. Scriptwriter Bernd Schroeder was inspired by a true story about Johanna, the owner of a cinema in a small town in the Ruhr Valley. During and soon after the war, she brings up her […]
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Der Siebente Kontinent
With his first feature film, Michael Haneke immediately made a great impression on the international film world. The moving story of an average middle-class family which resorts to collective suicide was portrayed step by step with frightening care. Haneke’s craftsmanship is cool, precise and as meticulous as a surgeon.The family comprises the successful engineer Georg, […]
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Lemminge II
The second and last episode of Lemminge is set twenty years after part one. The young protagonists have grown up and have children of their own. The earlier school-friends have grown apart and only bump into each other occasionally. Joy of living and perspective are however just as far away; the protagonists are plagued by […]
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Nachruf für einen Mörder
An exceptionally experimental work in Haneke’s oeuvre. He painstakingly confronts the medium television with itself. The film is built up of existing TV shots taken from different broadcasts all on one day.On 8 September 1990 Felix Zehetner (21) from Wien-Floridsdorf shot his parents dead in their sleep, inflicted a bloodbath at a neighbour’s party, shot […]
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Lemminge I
The first episode of a TV film in two parts, each with the length of a feature. Lemminge I is set in the autumn of 1959 in the rural village Wiener Neustadt in Niederösterreich. The film has five different protagonists around 18 years old, all in their last year at the local school. The oppressive […]
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Variation
Berlin, the early eighties, five protagonists: Georg, a teacher, his wife Eva, her younger sister Sigrid (the three live together), Anna, with whom Georg starts an affair and the actress Kitty who lives with Anna. The relationship between Georg and Anna, a difficult one that veers between attraction and repulsion, disrupts the life of all […]
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Drei Wege zum See
Haneke regards this film version of the story by Ingeborg Bachmann as his first real work. His earlier productions Und was komt danach? (After Liverpool) and Spermüll, as well as Drei wege zum See made for television, he calls exercises; they have therefore also not been included in the programme.The title of the story is […]