The Seventh Continent
The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke’s chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction. Inspired by a true story, the director’s first theatrical feature finds him fully in command of his style, observing with clinical detachment the spiritual emptiness of consumer culture—and the horror that lurks beneath its placid surfaces. The Seventh Continent builds to an annihilating encounter with the televisual void that powerfully synthesizes Haneke’s ideas about the link between violence and our culture of manufactured emotion.
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Cast
- Birgit Doll
- Anna
- Dieter Berner
- Georg
- Leni Tanzer
- Eva
- Udo Samel
- Alexander
- Silvia Fenz
- Optometrist’s customer
- Robert Dietl
- Oertl
- Elisabeth Rath
- Teacher
- Georges Kern
- Bank clerk
- Georg Friedrich
- Postal clerk
Credits
- Director
- Michael Haneke
- Screenplay by
- Michael Haneke
- Producer
- Veit Heiduschka
- Cinematography
- Toni Peschke
- Sound
- Karl Schlifelner
- Editing
- Marie Homolkova
- Set design
- Rudi Czettel
- Costumes
- Anna Georgiades
- Makeup
- Ernst Dummer
- Production manager
- Gebhard Zupan
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A scene from The Seventh Continent
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