Directed by:
Michael HanekeCinematography:
Anton PeschkeCast:
Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel, Georg Friedrich, Elisabeth Rath, Silvia Fenz, Georges Kern, Robert Dietl, Meat Loaf (a.f.) (more)Plots(1)
Easily one of the most provocative, oblique, and fascinating directors of contemporary European cinema, Michael Haneke's debut feature, The Seventh Continent, remains a masterpiece of existentialism and eerie violence. A married couple and their daughter go about their prosaic lives in a mechanical fashion; Haneke presents their lives as barely more than a series of rote mannerisms - even sex becomes a passive activity. On the surface, everything seems perfectly normal, but the film hints at a lurking malaise: the mother breaks, inexplicably, into tears as they drive through a carwash, the daughter feigns blindness at school, and then, suddenly, without warning, the family performs a drastic act of violence. (Kino Video)
(more)Cast
Birgit Doll
Austria
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Hard to Be a God (1989)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Dieter Berner
Austria
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
Leni Tanzer
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
The Moor's Head (1995)
Udo Samel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Die Rebellion (1993) (TV movie)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Georg Friedrich
Austria
Best movies:
North Face (2008)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Elisabeth Rath
Austria
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Silvia Fenz
Austria
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Georges Kern
Austria
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Die Rebellion (1993) (TV movie)
Robert Dietl
Austria
Best movies:
Diary of a Lover (1977)
Via Mala (1985) (series)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Meat Loaf (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Fight Club (1999)
The Seventh Continent (1989) - a.f.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Jennifer Rush (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989) - a.f.
Fire, Ice & Dynamite (1990)