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The Seventh Continent (German: Der siebente Kontinent) is a 1989 Austrian psychological horror film directed by Michael Haneke.It is Haneke's debut feature film. The film chronicles three years in the life of an Austrian family, which consists of Georg, an engineer; his wife Anna, an optometrist; and their young daughter, Eva.
Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac described the film as a "benign fairytale-like fantasy with a moral". [3] The Croatian Film Association database of Croatian cinema notes the film's criticism of the modern civilization and its mechanisms of repression, as well as its poetic visuals, but also its ultimately excessive idealization of the children's world, stereotypically contrasted with the ...
With his next film The White Ribbon (2009) Haneke chose to shoot in black-and-white and in Germany. The film is set in 1913 and deals with strange incidents in a small town in Northern Germany, depicting an authoritarian, fascist-like atmosphere, where children are subjected to rigid rules and suffer harsh punishments, and where strange deaths ...
The film is composed of individual stories where the lives of the characters intersect in misunderstandings and difficulties. A group of deaf children are playing a game of charades in sign language. A young girl begins to act out gestures of fear as she slowly walks backwards with hunched shoulders and a side stance until she reaches a wall ...
The Seventh Continent or 7th Continent can refer to: The Seventh Continent, a 1966 Croatian film; The Seventh Continent, a 1989 Austrian film; Sedmoi Kontinent, a grocery retail chain in Russia; The 7th Continent, a 2017 board game
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (German: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is a 1994 drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke. [1] It has a fragmented storyline as the title suggests, and chronicles several seemingly unrelated stories in parallel, but these separate narrative lines intersect in an incident at the end of the film.
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The game exists in a universe where a mysterious land has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica known as the seventh continent. Within this story, each player is an explorer who has just returned from the first expedition to the seventh continent. Several other members of this expedition group have disappeared suddenly upon their return.