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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.
Haneke's feature film debut was 1989's The Seventh Continent, which served to trace out the violent and bold style that would bloom in later years. The film chronicles the last years of an Austrian family played by Birgit Doll and Dieter Berner. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described the film as a "masterpiece". [12]
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 ...
Benny's Video is a 1992 psychological horror [2] film directed by Michael Haneke and starring Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, and Ulrich Mühe.Set in Vienna, it centers on Benny, a teenager who views much of his life as distilled through video images, and his well-to-do parents Anna and Georg, who enable Benny's focus on video cameras and images.
Funny Games (alternatively titled Funny Games U.S.) is a 2007 satirical psychological thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke.The film is a shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 film of the same title, [6] [7] [8] albeit in English and set in the United States with different actors; Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, and Brady Corbet star in the main roles. [9]
The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, generated controversy for depiction of graphic violence and torture amongst critics and audiences. [ 3 ] A shot-for-shot remake , filmed and set in the United States, was released in 2007, also directed by Haneke, this time with an English-speaking cast and a mostly American crew.
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 ...
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 ...