Michael Haneke is a Austrian Réalisateur born with Munich (Germany) the March 23rd 1942.
He becomes a film critic of 1967 with 1970 and works as a writer for the German television broadcast station Südwestrundfunk . As a director, it directs several parts to Germany, including works of Strindberg, Goethe and Heinrich von Kleist with Berlin, Munich and Vienna. It makes its beginnings of tele realizer in 1973.
Its first film for the cinema is the Seventh continent in 1989. Three years discussed later the Benny' S video makes known Haneke. But it is Funny Games which confirms its reputation of polemist and puts at the great day his cold style, relentless, private clinic and percussion, tracking without slackening the human tares and cruelty unrelentingly related to the operating processes of Western civilization in general and the Austrian company in particular. Its greater public success came in 2001 with the Pianist whose sulfurous sexual set of themes caused some uproars within the Critique but was worth to him the Grand Prix of the jury to Cannes. Haneke then continues a career of very disputed European realizer. It gains with Caché (on which the press was more unamime) the Prix of the setting in scene of the Cannes festival 2005.
The rate/rhythm of films of Haneke leaves the ordinary one. He does not hesitate to include periods of trouble, vacuum, frustation and irritation.
The recurrent themes are:
the introduction of a malevolent force into a comfortable middle-class existence.
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