| Edition |
Director-approved DVD special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (109 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
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polychrome rdacc |
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stamping rdapm |
| Description |
digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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surround rdacpc |
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5.1 Dolby Digital |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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region 1 rdare |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 975 |
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Criterion collection ; 975.
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| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) Dolby 5.1 surround. |
| Cast |
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Andreas Prochaska ; music, Georg Friedrich Hándel, Pietro Mascagni, W.A. Mozart, John Zorn. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. |
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Wide screen (1.85:1). |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| 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. |
| Note |
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. |
| Language |
German dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Serial murderers -- Drama.
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Home invasion -- Drama.
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Hostages -- Drama.
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Families -- Drama.
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Vacation homes -- Drama.
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Games -- Drama.
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Home invasion. (OCoLC)fst01747313
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Games. (OCoLC)fst00937529
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Hostages. (OCoLC)fst00961631
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Serial murderers. (OCoLC)fst01113110
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Vacation homes. (OCoLC)fst01163505
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Crime films. (OCoLC)fst01710477
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Crime films.
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Horror films.
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Feature films.
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Motion pictures, Austrian.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Horror films. (OCoLC)fst01710373
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Fiction films.
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Video, German.
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| Added Author |
Haneke, Michael, 1942- film director, screenwriter.
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Heiduschka, Veit, film producer.
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Lothar, Susanne, actor.
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Mühe, Ulrich, 1953-2007, actor.
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Frisch, Arno, actor.
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Giering, Frank, 1971-2010, actor.
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Clapczynski, Stefan, 1986- actor.
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Kunstmann, Doris, 1944- actor.
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Bantzer, Christoph, actor.
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Jürges, Jürgen, 1940- director of photography.
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Prochaska, Andreas, 1964- editor of moving image work.
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Wega Film (Firm), production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515229814 |
| ISBN |
9781681435831 |
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1681435837 |
| Music No. |
CC3026DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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