Directed by:
Michael HanekeScreenplay:
Michael HanekeCinematography:
Christian BergerCast:
Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner, Hanspeter Müller, Paulus Manker, Wolfgang Böck, Martin Schoendeling, Stefan Polasek (more)Plots(1)
One of the most inscrutable, alarming, frustrating, and fascinating contemporary film directors, Michael Haneke has created a name for himself by examining disturbing issues (sadism, violence, suicide, racism, voyeurism, alienation, nihilism, and misguided faith) with a cold cerebral eye. BENNY'S VIDEO opens with disturbing images of a pig being slaughtered; it is one of the many images obsessively viewed and reviewed by Benny, the 14-year old son of a wealthy Viennese family. Detached and ignored, Benny seems able to experience life only through his video camera. When he kills a young girl and records it on tape, his parents go about covering up the murder, and Haneke draws everyone--Benny, his parents, and the viewers themselves--into a web of complicity and postmodern dysfunction. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Arno Frisch
Austria
Best movies:
Funny Games (1997)
Benny's Video (1992)
Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008)
Angela Winkler
German Empire
Best movies:
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Danton (1983)
Ulrich Mühe
East Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Das Buschgespenst (1986) (TV movie)
Ingrid Stassner
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992)
Hanspeter Müller
Switzerland
Best movies:
North Face (2008)
The Foster Boy (2011)
Benny's Video (1992)
Paulus Manker
Austria
Best movies:
Lemmings, Part 1 - Arcades (1979) (TV movie)
Benny's Video (1992)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Wolfgang Böck
Austria
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992)
Le Violon rouge (1998)
The Crown Prince (2006) (TV movie)
Martin Schoendeling
Austria
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992)
Stefan Polasek
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992)
Stephanie Brehme
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992)
Hans Meiser (a.f.)
Germany
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992) - a.f.
Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film (2008)