Funny Games | |
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Directed by | Michael Haneke |
Written by | Michael Haneke |
Produced by | Veit Heiduschka |
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Cinematography | Jürgen Jürges |
Edited by | Andreas Prochaska |
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Distributed by | Concorde-Castle Rock/Turner |
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Running time | 109 minutes[2] |
Country | Austria |
Languages | German French |
Funny Games is a 1997 Austrian psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, and Arno Frisch. The plot involves two young men who hold a family hostage in their vacation home and torture them with sadistic games. The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[3] A shot-for-shot remake, filmed and set in the United States, was released in 2007, also directed by Haneke, this time with an English-speaking cast and a mostly American crew.