Michael HanekeFilmography

Born:: March 23, 1942 in Munich, Germany
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Cheerfully wishing his audience a "disturbing evening" at a London retrospective of his films, director Michael Haneke insists that he is an optimist at heart, despite all of the relentlessly bleak carnage and deeply disturbing imagery so vividly painted and seared into the mind of anyone who has...Read More

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The White Ribbon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaußner

Synopsis: In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for Read More

2009
Funny Games

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart

Synopsis: Notoriously nihilistic filmmaker Michael Haneke revisits one of his most controversial works in this remake of 1997's Funny Games starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. When a family of three arrives at their remote summer cabin for a quiet getaway, the sudden arrival of two psychotic men sets the Read More

3/14/08
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Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

2008
Caché

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Lester Makedonsky, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard

Synopsis: Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical Read More

12/23/05
The Time of the Wolf

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Bénichou, Lucas Biscombe, Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle

Synopsis: On the heels of his award-winning, emotionally devastating 2001 drama The Piano Teacher, German filmmaker Michael Haneke weaves this disturbing tale of a family forced into a harrowing confrontation with a group of strangers set against the backdrop of a global apocalypse. In the aftermath of an Read More

6/25/04
Michael Haneke: 24 Realities per Second

Actors: Michael Haneke

2004
The Piano Teacher

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar

Synopsis: How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not Read More

3/29/02
Code Unknown

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Luminita Gheorghiu, Hélène Diarra

Synopsis: German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance with this similarly fragmented tale of racism, intolerance, and hatred in modern-day Paris. The focus of the narrative is split between three sets of Read More

2000
Das Schloß

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Frank Giering, Felix Eitner, André Eisermann, Nikolaus Parvia

1997
Funny Games

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski

Synopsis: In this exploration of our violent society, writer and director Michael Haneke takes a disturbing look at how depictions of violence at once reflect and shape our culture. A well-to-do German family -- father Georg (Ulrich Mühe), mother Anna (Susanne Lothar), and son Georgie (Stefan Clapczynski) Read More

1997
Der Kopf Des Mohren

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A family man slowly becomes dangerously obsessive and paranoid in this grim Austrian drama that contains a graphically violent ending. As the story begins, George, an engineer who works at a science facility, has a normal happy life with his wife and kids. They are in the process of building a new Read More

1995
71 Fragmente Einer Chronologie des Zufalls

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grunmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel

Synopsis: This cerebral Austrian mystery, by avant-garde director Michael Haneke, will disturb those viewers with the patience to wade through it. The film begins with a grisly mass killing. It was Christmas eve 1993 and a 19-year old student inexplicably murders several people and then kills himself. The Read More

1994
Benny's Video

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulrich Mühe, Angela Winkler

Synopsis: For 14-year-old Benny, anything recorded on videotape is inherently better and more real than what he can see with his naked eyes. He is barely noticed by his professional parents and spends most of his time either viewing wild and violent films or looking at the view outside his window through Read More

1992
Der 7. Kontinent

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel

Synopsis: Three members of a middle-class family are followed as their lifestyle slowly disintegrates. Nothing spectacular happens: it's just the dreary un-ending grind of a go-nowhere existence. The film's final scene emulates Fassbinder, as the threesome bid auf wiedersehn to everyone and Read More

1989
Who Was Edgar Allan?

Crew: Director

1984
Variation

Crew: Director

1983
Lemmings - Part 1 - Arcadia

Crew: Director

1979
Lemmings - Part 2 - Injuries

Crew: Director

1979
Three Paths to the Lake

Crew: Director

1976