Known for Directing
Michael Haneke (born March 23, 1942) is a retired German-Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work. Besides working as filmmaker he also teaches directing at the Filmacademy Vienna. At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, his film The White Ribbon won the Palme d'Or for best film, and at the 67th Golden Globe Awards the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has made films in French, German and English.
Born
March 23, 1942 (age 84)
Birthplace
Munich, Germany
Filmography
70 films, 13 shows


Happy End
2017 · 1h 50m
country: France
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.


Amour
2012 · 2h 7m
country: France
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.


The White Ribbon
2009 · 2h 24m
country: Italy
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.


Funny Games
2008 · 1h 51m
country: United States
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.


Caché
2005 · 1h 58m
country: France
As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.


Time of the Wolf
2003 · 1h 53m
country: France
A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.


The Piano Teacher
2001 · 2h 11m
country: France
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.


Code Unknown
2000 · 1h 58m
country: France
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.


Funny Games
1997 · 1h 49m
country: Austria
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.


The Castle
1997 · 2h 3m
country: Germany
When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.


Lumière & Company
1995 · 1h 28m
country: France
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.


71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1995 · 1h 40m
country: Austria
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.


The Rebellion
1993 · 1h 50m
country: Austria
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.


Benny's Video
1992 · 1h 50m
country: Austria
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.


Obituary for a Murderer
1991 · 1h 50m
country: Austria
Autumn 1990, a young Austrian goes to a party held by some of his friends and provokes a hideous bloodbath. As a reflection of daily reality and its crass representation of the horror of this extreme crime, Michael Haneke has composed an experimental collage of material gathered from one day of ORF (Austrian TV) broadcasting, using each part in proportion to the time allocated to it in the programme schedule.


The Seventh Continent
1989 · 1h 47m
country: Austria
Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.


Fraulein
1986 · 1h 48m
country: Germany
A German woman and a former French prisoner of war live in 1950s Germany. Instead of playing a role in rebuilding her country, the heroine remains preoccupied with her personal affairs.


Who Was Edgar Allan?
1984 · 1h 23m
country: Austria
A nihilistic art student meets the mysterious Edgar Allan at a coffee shop in Venice. The fascination for the older man soon turns into paranoia.


Variation
1983 · 1h 38m
country: Germany
The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.


Three Paths to the Lake
1976 · 1h 40m
country: Germany
Elisabeth, a fifty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.


Trash
1976 · 1h 20m
country: Germany


After Liverpool
1974 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.