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The Seventh Continent

Cast

Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Silvia Fenz View All

Crew

Michael Haneke (Screenplay), Michael Haneke (Director), Johanna Teicht (Screenplay) View All

Release: May 19th, 1989

Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes

Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.

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The viewer is given a voyeuristic perspective into three years of the mundane life lived by an Austrian family, their ordinary behaviour and actions are constantly repeated throughout these years in an almost robotic manner, drained from any kind of emotion or life, it seems as though they have lost....

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The Seventh Continent was the debut feature film of director Michael Haneke; many of the skills, techniques and themes he would develop and explore in later films can already be seen here.