Michael Haneke Collection - 10-DVD Box Set ( The Seventh Continent (The 7th Continent) / Benny's Video / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Seventy One Fragments of a Chronology of Chance) / The Castle / Funny Games / Code Unknown / The Piano Teacher / Time of the Wolf / Hidden / The White Ribb ) ( Der siebente Kontinent / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls / Das Schloß / Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages / La pianiste / Le temps du loup / Caché / Das weiße / Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte )

Michael Haneke Collection - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Seventh Continent (The 7th Continent) / Benny's Video / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Seventy One Fragments of a Chronology of Chance) / The Castle / Funny Games / Code Unknown / The Piano Teacher / Time of the Wolf / Hidden / The White Ribb
Alternate Title: Der siebente Kontinent / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls / Das Schloß / Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages / La pianiste / Le temps du loup / Caché / Das weiße / Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Fantasporto Awards
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Golden Globes
Goya Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 - 2009 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Romania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Michael Haneke

Written By:
Michael Haneke
Johanna Teicht
Franz Kafka
Elfriede Jelinek

Actors:
Birgit Doll ..... Anna Schober
Dieter Berner ..... Georg Schober
Leni Tanzer ..... Evi Schober
Udo Samel ..... Alexander
Silvia Fenz ..... Optiker Kundin
Robert Dietl ..... Lehrerin
Elisabeth Rath ..... Störungsdienst der Post
Georges Kern
Georg Friedrich
Arno Frisch ..... Benny
Angela Winkler ..... Mutter
Ulrich Mühe ..... Vater
Ingrid Stassner ..... Mädchen
Stephanie Brehme ..... Evi
Stefan Polasek ..... Ricci
Christian Pundy
Max Berner
Hanspeter Müller
Shelley Kästner
Gabriel Cosmin Urdes ..... Marian Radu (Romanian Boy)
Lukas Miko ..... Max
Otto Grünmandl ..... Tomek
Anne Bennent ..... Inge Brunner
Udo Samel ..... Paul Brunner
Branko Samarovski ..... Hans
Claudia Martini ..... Maria
Georg Friedrich ..... Bernie
Alexander Pschill ..... Hanno
Klaus Händl ..... Gerhard
Corina Eder ..... Anni
Dorothee Hartinger ..... Kristina
Patricia Hirschbichler ..... Sabine Tomek
Barbara Nothegger ..... Fürsorgerin
Lucia Steindl ..... Petra
Ulrich Mühe ..... K.
Susanne Lothar ..... Frieda
Frank Giering ..... Artur
Felix Eitner ..... Jeremias
Nikolaus Paryla ..... Vorsteher
André Eisermann ..... Barnabas
Dörte Lyssewski ..... Olga
Inga Busch ..... Amalia
Norbert Schwientek ..... Bürgel
Hans Diehl ..... Erlanger
Birgit Linauer ..... Pepi
Branko Samarovski ..... Herrenhofwirt
Ortrud Beginnen ..... Brückenwirtin
Otto Grünmandl ..... Brückenwirt
Johannes Silberschneider ..... Lehrer
Susanne Lothar ..... Anna
Ulrich Mühe ..... Georg
Arno Frisch ..... Paul
Frank Giering ..... Peter
Stefan Clapczynski ..... Schorschi
Doris Kunstmann ..... Gerda
Christoph Bantzer ..... Fred
Wolfgang Glück ..... Robert
Susanne Meneghel ..... Gerdas Schwester
Monika Zallinger ..... Eva
Juliette Binoche ..... Anne Laurent
Thierry Neuvic ..... Georges
Josef Bierbichler ..... The Farmer
Alexandre Hamidi ..... Jean
Maimouna Hélène Diarra ..... Aminate
Ona Lu Yenke ..... Amadou
Djibril Kouyaté ..... The Father
Luminita Gheorghiu ..... Maria
Crenguta Hariton ..... Irina
Bob Nicolescu ..... Dragos
Bruno Todeschini ..... Pierre
Paulus Manker ..... Perrin
Didier Flamand ..... The Director
Walid Afkir ..... The Young Arab
Maurice Bénichou ..... The Old Arab
Isabelle Huppert ..... Erika Kohut
Annie Girardot ..... The Mother
Benoît Magimel ..... Walter Klemmer
Susanne Lothar ..... Mrs. Schober
Udo Samel ..... Dr. George Blonskij
Anna Sigalevitch ..... Anna Schober
Cornelia Köndgen ..... Mme Gerda Blonskij
Thomas Weinhappel ..... Baritone
Georg Friedrich ..... Man in drive-in
Philipp Heiss ..... Naprawnik
William Mang ..... Teacher
Rudolf Melichar ..... Director
Michael Schottenberg ..... Teacher
Gabriele Schuchter ..... Margot
Dieter Berner ..... Singing teacher
Isabelle Huppert ..... Anne Laurent
Beatrice Dalle ..... Lise Brandt
Patrice Chereau ..... Thomas Brandt
Rona Hartner ..... Arina
Maurice Bénichou ..... M. Azoulay
Olivier Gourmet ..... Koslowski
Brigitte Roüan ..... Béa
Lucas Biscombe ..... Ben
Hakim Taleb ..... Young runaway
Anaïs Demoustier ..... Eva
Serge Riaboukine ..... The leader
Maryline Even ..... Mme Azoulay
Florence Loiret Caille ..... Nathalie Azoulay
Branko Samarovski ..... Policeman
Daniel Duval ..... Georges Laurent
Daniel Auteuil ..... Georges Laurent
Maurice Bénichou ..... Majid
Annie Girardot ..... Georges's Mom
Bernard Le Coq ..... Georges's Editor-In-Chief
Walid Afkir ..... Majid's Son
Lester Makedonsky ..... Pierrot Laurent
Daniel Duval ..... Pierre
Nathalie Richard ..... Mathilde
Denis Podalydès ..... Yvon
Aïssa Maïga ..... Chantal
Caroline Baehr ..... Nurse
Christian Benedetti ..... Georges's Father
Philippe Besson ..... TV Guest
Loic Brabant ..... Police Officer No. 2
Christian Friedel ..... The School Teacher
Ernst Jacobi ..... The School Teacher as an Old Man
Leonie Benesch ..... Eva
Ulrich Tukur ..... The Baron
Ursina Lardi ..... The Baroness
Fion Mutert ..... Sigi
Michael Kranz ..... The Tutor
Burghart Klaußner ..... The Pastor
Steffi Kühnert ..... The Pastor's Wife
Maria-Victoria Dragus ..... Klara
Leonard Proxauf ..... Martin
Levin Henning ..... Adolf
Johanna Busse ..... Margarete
Thibault Sérié ..... Gustav
Josef Bierbichler ..... The Steward

Synopsis:

A collection of the acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's work.
The Seventh Continent (1989) is a disturbing study of a family in crisis.
Benny's Video (1992) follows Benny, an intelligent only child but a bit of a loner.
Funny Games (1997) Anna and Georg Schober arrive with their son, Georgie at their lakeside holiday home.
Hidden (2005), Georges is a successful TV presenter, happily married to Anne.
The Castle (1997), an adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle.
Time of the Wolf (2003) is a tense post-apocalyptic drama, set in a world in which society has completely broken down.
The Piano Teacher (2001) follows Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory who lives with her domineering mother and privately engages in masochistic acts.
Code Unknown (2000), Jean contemptuously throws an empty paper bag into the open hands of Romanian beggar Maria after an argument with his brother's girlfriend, Anne.
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance' (1994) begins with a horrific mass killing on Christmas Eve 1993.
The White Ribbon' (2009) is an unflinching black and white study of German rural village life in 1913.

The Seventh Continent / Der siebente Kontinent (1989)
The Seventh Continent (German: Der siebente Kontinent) is a 1989 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. It is Haneke's debut feature film, reportedly inspired by a true story of an Austrian middle-class family that committed suicide. The film chronicles the last years of the family, which consists of Georg, an engineer; his wife Anna, an optician; and their young daughter, Eva. They seem to lead routine urban middle-class lives, but suddenly decide to destroy themselves without any apparent reason. The film only implies some kind of nervous depression and isolation in modern repetitive life.

Benny's Video (1992)
Fourteen-year-old Benny's world is dominated entirely by video. He invites a young girl to his house where, with his camcorder running, he murders her and hides her body in a cupboard. He later breaks the news to his parents by running the tape for them.

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (German: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is a 1994 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. It has a fragmented storyline as the title suggests, and chronicles several unrelated stories in parallel. Separate narrative lines intersect in an incident at the last of the film: a mass killing at an Austrian bank. The film is set in Vienna, October to December 1993.

The Castle / Das Schloß (1997)
When land surveyor K. (Ulrich Mühe) 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.

Funny Games (1997)
Georg and Anna, and their son Georgie, are traveling to their lakeside summer home. Upon arrival, Georg and Georgie head off to the lake for sailing while Anna prepares dinner in the kitchen. The serenity is shattered by a young man named Peter, who knocks at the door asking to borrow some eggs. The unwanted visitor is joined by Paul, a brash, arrogant young man. It soon becomes clear the pair has no intention of leaving. When Georg returns and tries to throw them out, physical violence erupts, and the family is held captive. What ensues are highly disturbing and violent games that are initiated by Paul and Peter with Georg, Anna, and Georgie as the unwilling participants.

Code Unknown / Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000)
Jean, a farm lad, wants to escape his silent father; he runs to Paris to his older brother, Georges, who's away covering the war in Kosovo. Angry, he throws a bag of half-eaten pastry into a beggar's lap. Amadou, a young Franco-African, berates him. The police arrive, arrest Amadou and deport the beggar. Georges's girlfriend Anne is upset; it colors her relationship with Georges when he returns from the war. Separate lives intersect for the one moment, around the pastry bag, and all are altered. We follow each as repercussions of the incident play out. Deaf children bookend the film pantomiming words, feelings, and situations: what they are expressing?

The Piano Teacher / La pianiste (2001)
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?

Time of the Wolf / Le temps du loup (2003)
Immediately before a global catyclysm, Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home in the countryside only to find it is occupied by a group of complete strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process, as they discover that nothing will ever be the same again.

Hidden / Caché (2005)
Anne and Georges Laurant have a book-lined Paris townhouse, jobs at a publishing house and as the host of a high-brow talk show, and a teenage son, Pierrot, who's on the swim team. Their dinner parties sparkle, but there's tension. They have little to say to each other: Anne may be on the verge of an affair with a close family friend, and Pierrot is monosyllabic and out with friends some evenings. There's new strain when they begin to receive tapes of their home under surveillance--tapes accompanied by childlike drawings of a boy and blood. Anne and Georges are unnerved, dreams give Georges a clue, but he shares little with Anne. What part of himself and his past has he kept hidden?

The White Ribbon / Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.

A collection of the acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's work. 'The Seventh Continent' (1989) is a disturbing study of a family in crisis. The storyline follows three years in the life of Georg (Dieter Berner), his wife, Anna (Birgit Doll), and their daughter, Eva (Leni Tanzer), during which time a psychological blindness leads to the family's self-destruction. 'Benny's Video' (1992) follows Benny (Arno Frisch), an intelligent only child but a bit of a loner. He sits in his room most nights, with his video cameras and TV, watching horror films and listening to heavy rock music. But everything changes when he invites a young girl his own age back to his room to show her a video. In 'Funny Games' (1997), Anna (Susan Lothar) and Georg Schober (Ulrich Muhe) arrive with their son, Georgie (Stefan Clapczynski), at their lakeside holiday home. Through their neighbour, Fred (Christoph Bantzer), they meet Paul (Frisch) and his friend, Peter (Frank Giering). However, once inside Anna and Georg's house, Peter and Paul begin to torture them, betting that in 24 hours they and Georgie will all be dead. In 'Hidden' (2005), Georges (Daniel Auteuil) is a successful TV presenter, happily married to Anne (Juliette Binoche). Their idyllic, middle-class life is suddenly derailed when Georges starts receiving tapes through the post, from someone who has been secretly filming him and his family as they go about their daily business. In 'The Castle' (1997), an adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, land surveyor K (Muhe) arrives at a small village that houses a castle. Though he was invited to the castle by officials, authorities refuse to allow him to enter and befuddle him with increasingly bizarre bureaucratic obstacles. 'Time of the Wolf' (2003) is a tense post-apocalyptic drama, set in a world in which society has completely broken down. Anne (Isabelle Huppert) flees the city with her husband and two children, hoping to find refuge at the family's country home. 'The Piano Teacher' (2001) follows Erika Kohut (Huppert), a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory who lives with her domineering mother (Annie Girardot) and privately engages in masochistic acts. In 'Code Unknown' (2000), Jean (Alexandre Hamidi) contemptuously throws an empty paper bag into the open hands of Romanian beggar Maria (Luminita Gheorghiu) after an argument with his brother's girlfriend, Anne (Binoche). When music teacher Amadou (Ona Lu Yenke) demands that Jean apologise to Maria, the two get caught in a scuffle that results in Amadou's arrest and Maria's deportation. '71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance' (1994) begins with a horrific mass killing on Christmas Eve 1993. The film flashes back to follow a series of strangers - all with different lives but sharing a sense of hopelessness - whose fragmented narratives culminate in one fateful night. 'The White Ribbon' (2009) is an unflinching black and white study of German rural village life in 1913. Focusing in particular on the austere and often brutal environment of the village school, overseen by the schoolmaster (Christian Friedel), the film not only exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of adults towards children but offers an insight into the undercurrents of patriarchy and repression that went on to shape 20th-century Germany. As the outbreak of war draws near, a series of violent and unexplained events shake the small community to its core.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2012.