Funny Games

Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

Keywords

  • Escape to the 90's
  • Film Fest Gent !
  • Film Festival Oostende
  • Film Festival Oostende (home)
  • Michael Haneke
  • Movies that shook the Cannes Film Festival
  • The Sooner team's favorites: Fabian
  • family
  • madness
  • relationship
  • suspense
  • the edge

Actors

  • Arno Frisch
  • Ulrich Mühe
  • Doris Kunstmann
  • Susanne Lothar

Director

  • Michael Haneke

Drama


1h 48min


-16

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FR

NL

Austria
1996
Two young men take a family hostage in their vacation cottage and force them to play sadistic “games” with each other for entertainment.

Two young men take a family hostage in their vacation cottage and force them to play sadistic “games” with each other for entertainment.


Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

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