Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and theatre science in Vienna. After a number of made-for-TV movies he shot the trilogy The Seventh Continent (1989), Benny's Video (1992), and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994), in which he analysed the relationship between violence and modern media. His other works are also marked by a certain pessimism towards man and the dark side of his soul; several of his greatest international successes have also… (meer)