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-'''Michael Haneke''' (born [[March 23]], [[1942]] in [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]) is a controversial [[Austria|Austrian]] filmmaker and writer best known for his [[bleak]] and, for some, [[disturbing]] style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in [[television]]‚ [[theater]] and [[Film|cinema]]. He is also known for [[Political cinema|raising social issues in his work]]. +'''Michael Haneke''' (born [[March 23]], [[1942]] in [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]) is a controversial [[Austrian filmmaker]] and writer best known for his [[bleak]] and, for some, [[disturbing]] style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in [[television]]‚ [[theater]] and [[Film|cinema]]. He is also known for [[Political cinema|raising social issues in his work]]. His next film is [[Happy End (2017 film)|''Happy End'']].
== Themes == == Themes ==
:''"My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus."'' :''"My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus."''
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==Filmography== ==Filmography==
-===Feature Films===+===Feature films===
-* ''[[Der Siebente Kontinent]]'' ([[1989 in film|1989]])+* ''[[The Seventh Continent]]'' (1989)
-** ''The Seventh Continent''+* ''[[Benny's Video]]'' (1992)
-* ''[[Benny's Video]]'' ([[1992 in film|1992]])+* ''[[71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance]]'' (1994)
-* ''[[71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls]]'' +* ''[[Funny Games (1997 film)|Funny Games]]'' (1997)
-** ''71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance'' ([[1994 in film|1994]])+* ''[[Code Unknown]]'' (2000)
-* ''[[Funny Games (1997 film)|Funny Games]]'' ([[1997 in film|1997]])+* ''[[The Piano Teacher (2001 film)|The Piano Teacher]]'' (2001) Won the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) | Grand Prix]] at the [[2001 Cannes Film Festival]]
-*''[[Code Unknown|Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages]]'' ([[2000 in film|2000]])+* ''[[Time of the Wolf]]'' (2003)
-** ''Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys''+* ''[[Caché (film)|Caché]]'' (2005) (''Hidden'') Won the [[Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Director Award]] at the [[2005 Cannes Film Festival]]
-* ''[[La Pianiste]]'' ([[2001 in film|2001]])+* [[Funny Games (2008 film)|''Funny Games'' (US remake)]] (2008)
-** ''The Piano Teacher''+* ''[[The White Ribbon]]'' (2009) Won the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[2009 Cannes Film Festival]] and 2010 the [[Golden Globe]] in the category "Best Foreign Language Film".
-* ''[[Le Temps du Loup|Le temps du loup]]'' ([[2002 in film|2002]])+* ''[[Amour (2012 film)]]'' (2012) Won the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]]
-** ''Time of the Wolf''+
-* ''[[Caché (film)|Caché]]'' ([[2004 in film|2004]])+
-** ''Hidden''+
-* ''[[Funny Games (2007 film)|Funny Games]]'' ([[2007 in film|2007]])+
-* ''Untitled Music-Themed Project'' ([[2008 in film|2008]])+
-* ''Untitled Nazi Youth Project'' (TBA)+
-'''Feature films (as writer)'''+===TV films===
-* ''Der Kopf des Mohren'' (dir. [[Paulus Manker]]) ([[1995 in film|1995]])+* ''[[...Und was Kommt Danach?]]'' (1974) (''After Liverpool'')
-** ''The Moor's Head''+* ''[[Drei Wege zum See]]'' (1976) (''Three Paths to the Lake'')
 +* ''[[Sperrmüll]]'' (1976) (''Household Rubbish'')
 +* ''[[Lemminge, Teil 1: Arkadien]]'' (1979) (''Lemmings, Part 1: Arcadia'')
 +* ''[[Lemminge, Teil 2: Verletzungen]]'' (1979) (''Lemmings, Part 2: Injuries'')
 +* ''[[Variation (film)|Variation]]'' (1983)
 +* ''[[Wer war Edgar Allan?]]'' (1984) (''Who Was Edgar Allen?'')
 +* ''[[Fräulein (1985 film)|Fräulein]]'' (1985) (''Miss'')
 +* ''[[Nachruf für einen Mörder]]'' (1991) (''Obituary for a Murderer'')
 +* ''[[Die Rebellion]]'' (1992) (''The Rebellion'')
 +* ''[[Das Schloß (film)|Das Schloß]]'' (1997) (''The Castle'')
 + 
 +===Short films===
 +* ''[[Lumière and Company]]''' (1995) (segment "Michael Haneke/Vienne")
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Michael Haneke (born March 23, 1942 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is a controversial Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and, for some, disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in televisiontheater and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work. His next film is Happy End.

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"My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus."
-- From "Film as catharsis", ISBN 3901272003

Rejecting what is considered to be standard conventions of timing, the build up of suspense and logical plotting, Haneke is not worried about inducing boredom, irritation and frustration. His films are considered to be very immediate without being simplistic. Arguably concerned with a society that no longer knows how to love—or for that matter how to hate—his films are in many ways an attempt to resharpen the audience's feelings and responses to the world.

Recurring themes include:

  • the introduction of a malevolent force into comfortable bourgeois existence, as seen in Funny Games and Caché;
  • a critique directed towards mass media, especially television, as seen in Funny Games, where some of the characters are aware that they feature in a movie, and Benny's Video.
  • the inability or unwillingness to communicate directly from one person to another, or an unwillingness to involve oneself in the actions and decisions of others, even those in the same living conditions, as seen in Benny's Video, 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls and Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages.
  • characters named George and Anna (or some alternate version of those names)

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Feature films

TV films

Short films




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