Container of (work): Siebente Kontinent (Motion picture) Container of (work): Benny's Video (Motion picture) Container of (work): 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (Motion picture)
Notes:
Seventh continent: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel, Silvia Fenz, Robert Dietl, Elisabeth Rath. Benny's video: Arno Fisch, Angela Winkler, Ulric Muhe. 71 fragments of a chronology of chance: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel, Branko Samarovski, Claudia Martini, Georg Friedrich, Alexander Pschill, Klaus Händl, Corina Eder, Dorothee Hartinger. Title from disc label. Wide screen (1.66:1). Accompanied by booklet containing essay by novelist John Wray. Director-approved three Blu-ray special edition features: High-definition digital masters, supervised by director Michael Haneke, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks; New interview with actor Arno Frisch; New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath; Interviews from 2005 with Haneke; Documentary about Haneke's career featuring interviews with Haneke and actors Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, and Jean-Louis Trintignant; Deleted scenes from Benny's Video; Trailers; New English subtitle translations; An essay by novelist John Wray.
Contents:
(1994, 99 min.). 71 fragments of a chronology of chance / Seventh continent / von Michael Haneke ; Co-Produzenten, Paul Bielicki, Michael Boehme ; Produzent, Veit Heiduschka ; Buch und Regie, Michael Haneke ; Ein Coproduktion der Wega Film mit Camera Film und ZDF/ARTE. (1989, 108 min.) -- Blu-ray two. Benny's video / ein Film von Michael Haneke ; eine Coproduktion mit der Wega Filmproduktionsges mit Bernard Lang ; Produktion, Veit Heiduschka, Bernard Lang ; Buch und Regie, Michael Haneke. (1992, 110 min.) -- Blu-ray 3. 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls = 71 fragments of a chronology of chance / von Michael Haneke ; Co-Produzenten, Paul Bielicki, Michael Boehme ; Produzent, Veit Heiduschka ; Buch und Regie, Michael Haneke ; Ein Coproduktion der Wega Film mit Camera Film und ZDF/ARTE. (1994, 99 min.).
Summary:
Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction. Benny's video: Benny often views violent films, and one day he decides to mimic them. Michael Haneke turns the unflinching gaze of the camera back on itself in this provocative profoundly disturbing study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation. 71 fragments of a chronology of chance: Follows residents of Vienna for a few months before a mass murder happens. The simultaneously random and interconnected nature of modern existence comes into harrowing focus in the despairing final installment of Michael Haneke's trilogy. Seventy-one intricate, puzzle like scenes survey the routines of a handful of seemingly unrelated people.
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