Released Date:
1998-03-11
Languages:
German, French, Italian
Countries:
Austria
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (39945 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeTwo 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?
Released Date:
1998-10-01
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany, Austria
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2029 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeWhen a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.
Released Date:
2001-09-05
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
Austria, France, Germany
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (34573 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeGenres:
DramaMichael Haneke
Elfriede Jelinek (novel)
Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
Released Date:
2001-09-05
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
Austria, France, Germany
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (34706 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeGenres:
DramaMichael Haneke
Elfriede Jelinek (novel)
Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
Released Date:
2011-11-24
Languages:
German, English, Polish, Russian
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1153 Reviews)
Director:
Anna JusticePamela Katz (screenplay)
Anna Justice (collaborator on screenplay)
Pamela Katz
Die Verlorene Zeit (Remembrance) depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impossible passion fuels the courage of a Polish prisoner who manages to rescue his Jewish girlfriend. Against all odds, they escape the camp and survive a treacherous journey to freedom. But during the chaos of the end of the war, they are forcibly separated and each is convinced that the other has died. More than thirty years later in New York, the happily married 52-year-old woman accidentally finds out that her former Polish lover is still alive. And she has to see him again.
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