Funny Games (1997 film)

Funny Games
Funny Games
	Original release poster
Directed by	Michael Haneke
Written by	Michael Haneke
Produced by	Veit Heiduschka
Starring	Susanne Lothar; Ulrich Mühe; Arno Frisch; Frank Giering; Stefan Clapczynski;
Cinematography	Jürgen Jürges
Edited by	Andreas Prochaska
Production; companies	Österreichischer Rundfunk; Wega Film
Distributed by	Concorde-Castle Rock/Turner
Release dates	14 May 1997 (Cannes); 11 March 1998 (United States);
Running time	109 minutes
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.

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^ "Funny Games (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 13 March 1998. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Funny Games". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2009.