Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Haneke, Michael, 1942- film director, screenwriter.
Heiduschka, Veit, film producer.
Lothar, Susanne, actor.
Mühe, Ulrich, 1953-2007, actor.
Frisch, Arno, actor.
Giering, Frank, 1971-2010, actor.
Clapczynski, Stefan, 1986- actor.
Kunstmann, Doris, 1944- actor.
Bantzer, Christoph, actor.
Jürges, Jürgen, 1940- director of photography.
Prochaska, Andreas, 1964- editor of moving image work.
Wega Film (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781681435831
1681435837
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| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
stamping
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
optical
surround
5.1 Dolby Digital
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
DVD video
region 1
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Michael Haneke; New interviews with Haneke and actor Arno Frisch; New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath; Press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival featuring Haneke and actors Susanne Lothar and Ulrike Mühe; Trailer; An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri.
Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Andreas Prochaska ; music, Georg Friedrich Hándel, Pietro Mascagni, W.A. Mozart, John Zorn.
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) Dolby 5.1 surround.
German dialogue with optional English subtitles.
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| Summary: | "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games,' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty"--Container.
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| Target Audience: | Rating: Not rated.
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| Standard no.: | 715515229814
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| Publisher's no.: | CC3026DDVD The Criterion Collection
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