The Michael Haneke Trilogy

Three films by acclaimed Austrian director Michael Haneke, known as his 'Glaciation' trilogy. 'The Seventh Continent' (1989) portrays three years in the life of Georg (Dieter Berner), his wife Anna (Birgit Doll) and their daughter Eva (Leni Tanzer), during which time a psychological blindness leads to the family's self-destruction. The film explores familiar Haneke themes: the bourgeouis family unit, professional success and the price of conformism. In 'Benny's Video' (1992), 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frish) immerses himself in the universe of violent movies to fill the void of his middle-class existence. When he invites a girl back to his home, events take a fatal turn as he re-enacts the focus of his video obsession: the shooting of a pig. The final film in the trilogy, '71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance' (1994), is a mosaic of 71 film tableaux portraying a number of people and events - otherwise unconnected - in the lead-up to a shooting spree undertaken by an Austrian student at Christmas in 2003.

Director: Michael Haneke
Producer: Veit Heiduschka
Writer: Michael Haneke
Writer: Johanna Teicht
Music: Alban Berg
Actor: Birgit Doll
Actor: Dieter Berner
Actor: Leni Tanzer
Actor: Udo Samuel
Actor: Arno Frish
Actor: Angela Winkler
Actor: Ulrich Muhe
Actor: Ingrid Stassner
Actor: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes
Actor: Lukas Miko
Actor: Otto Grunmandl
Actor: Anne Bennent
Actor: Branko Samarovski
Actor: Claudia Martini
Actor: Georg Friedrich