FUNNY GAMES
synopsis
Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?
original title: | Funny Games |
country: | Austria |
sales agent: | Celluloid Dreams |
year: | 1997 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Michael Haneke |
film run: | 108' |
release date: | FR 14/05/1997, DE 11/09/1997, CH 07/11/1997, TR 12/12/1997, SE 29/01/1998, BE 04/02/1998, NL 05/02/1998, NO 06/02/1998, PT 25/02/1998, ES 05/03/1998, PL 20/03/1998, DK 24/04/1998, IT 02/07/1998, FI 22/08/1998, UK 30/10/1998, LV 01/01/1999, IS 16/01/1999, RU 22/01/1999, EE 01/10/1999, HU 03/10/2002, CZ 19/03/2004 |
screenplay: | Michael Haneke |
cast: | Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch |
cinematography by: | Jürgen Jürges |
film editing: | Andreas Prochaska |
art director: | Christoph Kanter |
costumes designer: | Lisy Christl |
producer: | Veit Heiduschka |
executive producer: | Veit Heiduschka |