funny games
With
Susanne Lothar Ulrich Mühe Arno Frisch Frank Giering
Synopsis
It is the start of the holiday. Anna, Georg and their young son Georgie travel to their idyllic lakeside house. Their neighbours, Fred and Eva, are already there. They have arranged to play golf together for the next day. The weather is superb. While father and son are rigging up their freshly overhauled sailing boat, Anna prepares supper. Suddenly Peter, a young, evidently well-bred guest of their neighbours, is standing at the front door asking Anna for a few eggs, explaining that Eva has started cooking and run out of eggs. Anna willingly complies with the request. Then stopping abruptly she asks how he has entered their property. Peter replies that there is a hole in the fence which Fred had shown him…
Awards
- Compétition officielle — Festival de Cannes 1997
- Silver Hugo Award — Chicago Film Festival 1997
- Prix FIPRESCI, Festival international du film de Flandres — Gand 1997
- Konrad-Wolf-Preis pour l’ensemble de son œuvre, Prix de l’Académie des Arts — Berlin 1998
- 13ème Prix Très Spécial , Communiqué de Presse — Paris 1997
Press
Un cauchemar sans réveil
Les Cahiers du cinéma
Credits
- Screenplay
- Michael Haneke
- Cinematography
- Jürgen Jürges
- Editing
- Andreas Prochaska
- Sound
- Walter Amann
- Production design
- Christoph Kanter
- Costumes
- Lisy Christl
- Produced by
- Wega Film - Veit Heiduschka
- French distribution
- Les Films du Losange
- International sales
- Les Films du Losange
Technical details
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 1h44
- Genre
- Drame
- Nationalities
- Autriche
- Sound format
- 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Premiere
- Festival de Cannes 1997
- Visa
- 93 071
