Michael Haneke (born 23 March 1942) is a 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.
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Michael Haneke Biography / Wiki
Name | Michael Haneke |
Also Know | 미카엘 하네케, 迈克尔·哈内克, 미하엘 하네케, 마ì´í´ 하네케 |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Directing |
Place of Birth | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
Date of Birth | March 23, 1942 |
Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 81 |
Deathday |
Michael Haneke Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
24 Realities per Second | Self | 2005-01-28 | A portrait of a dedicated filmmaker who is a charming yet elusive figure in thrall to cinema and the constant perfection of his craft…. |
Michael H. – Profession: Director | Self | 2013-03-15 | Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figure in modern cinema whose rigorous focus on the cra… |
My Life – Michael Haneke | Self | 2009-10-24 | His new film “The White Ribbon” received the Palme d’or at Cannes this year. Felix and Gero von Boehm have accompanied the German and French film dire… |
Filming Haneke | Interviewee | 2000-11-16 | A making-of documentary featuring interviews with director Michael Haneke, actor Juliette Binoche, and producer Marin Karmitz, as well as on-set foota… |
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years | Himself | 2020-05-20 | This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of “New Austrian Cinema” and presents Austria as a film coun… |
Code Haneke | Self | 2022-03-20 | Features interviews with two-time Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke and his key collaborators, alongside excerpts from his films…. |
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis | Self | 2012-05-21 | … |
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors’ Fortnight | Self | 2008-05-18 | A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight selection…. |
Inthierryview | himself | 2008-11-28 | … |
French Cinema Mon Amour | Self | 2015-07-06 | French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their … |
The Legend of the Ugly King | Self | 2018-10-11 | Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who dire… |
Charm’s Incidents | 1996-10-03 | Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about… | |
Trintignant by Trintignant | Self (archive footage) | 2021-10-11 | A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed Frenc… |
Trespassing Bergman | Self | 2013-08-28 | In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of FÃ¥rö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm a… |
Bergmans video | Self | 2012-08-22 | In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of FÃ¥rö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm a… |
Michael Haneke Directing Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Caché | Director | 2005-10-05 | A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch…. |
The Piano Teacher | Director | 2001-09-05 | Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her…. |
Benny’s Video | Director | 1992-05-13 | 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…. |
Funny Games | Director | 1997-09-11 | 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 th… |
Code Unknown | Director | 2000-11-15 | 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… |
Time of the Wolf | Director | 2003-08-28 | When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learn… |
Funny Games | Director | 2008-03-14 | 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 wi… |
The Seventh Continent | Director | 1989-10-20 | Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent c… |
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance | Director | 1995-04-26 | 71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve…. |
The Castle | Director | 1997-09-06 | Michael Haneke’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himsel… |
The White Ribbon | Director | 2009-09-24 | Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abu… |
Lumière and Company | Director | 1995-12-20 | 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditio… |
Amour | Director | 2012-09-20 | Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her fam… |
Variation | Director | 1983-09-21 | The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher…. |
The Rebellion | Director | 1993-10-26 | 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 g… |
Three Paths to the Lake | Director | 1976-12-18 | Elisabeth, a forty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life… |
Lemmings, Part 2: Injuries | Director | 1979-05-03 | This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap b… |
Lemmings, Part 1: Arcadia | Director | 1979-05-02 | This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap b… |
Fraulein | Director | 1986-04-06 | 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 pre… |
Who Was Edgar Allan? | Director | 1984-04-11 | A nihilistic art student meets the mysterious Edgar Allen at a coffee shop in Venice. The fascination for the older man soon turns into paranoia…. |
Così fan tutte | Director | 2013-06-21 | Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to wh… |
Trash | Director | 1976-11-22 | The second telefilm directed by Michael Haneke…. |
Happy End | Director | 2017-06-21 | 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 refu… |
After Liverpool | Director | 1974-01-01 | An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading…. |
Obituary for a Murderer | Director | 1991-11-08 | 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 c… |
Writing
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Caché | Screenplay | 2005-10-05 | A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch…. |
The Piano Teacher | Screenplay | 2001-09-05 | Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her…. |
Benny’s Video | Screenplay | 1992-05-13 | 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…. |
Funny Games | Screenplay | 1997-09-11 | 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 th… |
Code Unknown | Screenplay | 2000-11-15 | 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… |
Time of the Wolf | Screenplay | 2003-08-28 | When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learn… |
Funny Games | Screenplay | 2008-03-14 | 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 wi… |
The Seventh Continent | Screenplay | 1989-10-20 | Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent c… |
The Castle | Writer | 1997-09-06 | Michael Haneke’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himsel… |
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance | Writer | 1995-04-26 | 71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve…. |
The White Ribbon | Story | 2009-09-24 | Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abu… |
The White Ribbon | Screenplay | 2009-09-24 | Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abu… |
Amour | Screenplay | 2012-09-20 | Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her fam… |
The Moor’s Head | Screenplay | 1995-05-18 | Georg, who is happy with his job as a scientist, with his loving wife and with his three children, hears one day that an accident has happened in a ch… |
Happy End | Writer | 2017-06-21 | 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 refu… |
Dirt | Dialogue | 1986-11-27 | Josef “Schmutz” (german for “dirt”), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial p… |
Three Paths to the Lake | Screenplay | 1976-12-18 | Elisabeth, a forty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life… |
Lemmings, Part 2: Injuries | Writer | 1979-05-03 | This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap b… |
Lemmings, Part 1: Arcadia | Writer | 1979-05-02 | This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap b… |
After Liverpool | Writer | 1974-01-01 | An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading…. |
The Rebellion | Writer | 1993-10-26 | 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 g… |
Variation | Writer | 1983-09-21 | The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher…. |
Obituary for a Murderer | Writer | 1991-11-08 | 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 c… |
Fraulein | Writer | 1986-04-06 | 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 pre… |
Other Info
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Goodnight Mommy | Thanks | 2014-10-07 | In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes ho… |
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