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Na véspera do natal de 1993, em Viena, um jovem de 19 anos assassinou três pessoas em um banco e matou-se em seguida com um tiro na cabeça. Em 71 fragmentos Michael Haneke reconta a história, com ênfase nos eventos aleatórios que levaram os quatro mortos daquele dia a estarem juntos naquela hora e lugar.
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The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death he recognizes that he was always too decent and too obedient.
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Benny é filho único de uma família rica, e compensa a solidão que sente assistindo filmes e produzindo ele mesmo seus próprios vídeos; seu filme favorito é um feito no sítio dos pais, onde o caseiro dispara uma pistola pneumática contra a cabeça de um porco. Em um final de semana em que seus pais viajam Benny fica sozinho em casa, e convida uma garota que conheceu na locadora para assistir um filme em sua casa. A menina aceita, e o que poderia terminar em algum tipo de romance converte-se em um desastre.
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This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The young genius fights a desperate battle against time, his fellow men - and against himself.
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Geog, sua esposa Anna e pequena filha do casal, Evi, vivem uma pacata vida de classe média; acordam todos os dias na mesma hora, fazem as mesmas atividades, organizam jantares com conhecidos. Evi começa a ter problemas na escola, fingindo ter doenças e os pais percebem de súbito que sua vida não é feliz. Para tentar melhorar as coisas eles planejam mudar-se para a Austrália. O Sétimo Continente é baseado em uma história real, uma possibilidade de interpretar um caso para o qual até hoje a polícia austríaca não conseguiu encontrar resposta.
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One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions.
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Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing his sense of reality.
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Vienna 1910. Hans Trautendorffer, an 35 year old journalist bets with his newpaper chief that he'll be able to work as a farm worker in the country for a whole year. But his dreams of a healthy, quiet country life don't come true- at least not the way he expected it.
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In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. For most of the hour, as the concise narration of Marguerite Duras' novel on eroticism and aesthetics fills the aural gaps, actress Marie Colbin's form fills the visual gaps. But unless viewers consider the feminine eyeball or microscopic views of skin exotic and worth lingering over, the eroticism lies more in the imagination than on the screen. In fact, the female body lying on the bed, taken away from the spirit that animates it, is really just a corpse -- raising the question, exactly what is the "malady of death?"
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This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap between 1950s teenagers and their parents while the second shows this same group of characters twenty years later as they have grown up to be dysfunctional and suicidal adults. Regarded as the most significant of Haneke’s early works, Lemmings contains incipient treatments of many of the themes he would later elaborate on in his theatrical features.
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This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap between 1950s teenagers and their parents while the second shows this same group of characters twenty years later as they have grown up to be dysfunctional and suicidal adults. Regarded as the most significant of Haneke’s early works, Lemmings contains incipient treatments of many of the themes he would later elaborate on in his theatrical features.
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Based on Joseph Roth's novella.