THE ESSENTIAL MICHAEL HANEKE

Visionary filmmaker Michael Haneke is one of modern cinema’s undisputed masters and the winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or.
This collection includes the Kafka adaptation ‘The Castle’, and the fascinating documentary ‘24 Realities per Second’, both available for the first time in the UK and exclusive to this box set.





THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989)
Haneke’s first theatrical feature is a disturbing and masterfully composed portrait of a family’s disintegration and ultimate self-destruction.
Austria, 104mins.; SPECIAL FEATURES: Michael Haneke interview, theatrical trailer

BENNY’S VIDEO (1992)
Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this unsettling examination of a 14 year-old boy’s obsession with violent films and images.
Austria/Switzerland, 115 mins.

71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE (1994)
Haneke’s mesmerising critique of the isolating effects of western society skilfully interweaves an intricate series of seemingly unrelated scenes.
Austria, 95 minutes; SPECIAL FEATURES: Michael Haneke interview,Theatrical trailer

THE CASTLE (1997)
Haneke’s brilliant adaptation of Kafka’s great unfinished novel stars Ulrich Mühe (The Lives of Others) as an official grappling with a mountain of bureaucracy in a dystopian society.
Austria, 120 mins.; SPECIAL FEATURES: Documentary ’24 Realities per Second’ (UK Premiere), theatrical trailers

FUNNY GAMES (1997)
A family are terrorised by two strangers in this classic original version of Haneke’s disturbing and uncompromising critique of screen violence.
Austria, 104 minutes.

CODE UNKOWN (2000)
Juliette Binoche stars in this ambitious, complex and powerful study of the barriers that exist between people in the modern world.
France, 112 mins.; SPECIAL FEATURES: Michael Haneke interview, making of documentary, theatrical trailer

THE PIANO TEACHER (2001)
Isabelle Huppert gives the performance of her career as a repressed teacher who unleashes a previously inhibited and uncontrollable desire when a student attempts to seduce her.
France, 129 mins.; SPECIAL FEATURES: Interviews with Michael Haneke, Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Magimel, Theatrical trailer

TIME OF THE WOLF (2003)
Isabelle Huppert and Béatrice Dalle star in Haneke’s nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down.
France, 111 mins; SPECIAL FEATURES: Making of documentary

HIDDEN (CACHÉ) (2005)
This utterly compelling thriller stars Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as a couple who are disturbed by the arrival of covertly filmed videos of their home.
France, 109 mins.; SPECIAL FEATURES: Michael Haneke interview, Making of documentary, Theatrical trailer

FUNNY GAMES (U.S. VERSION) (2007)
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth star in this acclaimed remake that is every bit as shocking as the brilliant original.
USA, 107 mins.; SPECIAL FEATURES: Michael Haneke interview, theatrical trailers