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Funny Games
- Director: Michael Haneke
- Writer: Michael Haneke
- Producer: Veit Heiduschka
CGiii Comment
The first part of an interesting experiment...
The dialectic differences between Europe and America - the english-language re-make!
The familiar faces in the US version remind us that they are actors - here, these strange faces afford no such luxury...this is menace.
Unlike its American counterpart this is visceral, vicious and devoid of any warmth of familiarity.
Quite exceptional.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?
Cast & Characters
Susanne Lothar as Anna;
Ulrich Muhe as Georg;
Arno Frisch as Paul;
Frank Giering as Peter;
Stefan Clapczynski as Schorschi;
Doris Kunstmann as Gerda;
Christoph Bantzer as Fred;
Wolfgang Gluck as Robert;
Susanne Meneghel as Gerdas Schwester;
Monika Zallinger as Eva