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Born March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany - Austrian film director and screenwriter, winner of many prestigious film awards. In addition to cinema, he works on television and in the theater.
The son of director and actor Fritz Haneke and actress Beatrice von Degenschild, Michael Haneke spent his childhood in Wiener Neustadt. Graduated from the University of Vienna (where he studied philosophy, psychology and theater). After graduation, he became a film critic, worked as an editor for the Sudwestfunk TV channel for three years. In 1973 he made his debut as a television director.
Haneke made his full-length debut in 1989 with The Seventh Continent, which won an award at the Locarno Film Festival. Already in this early film, the characteristic features of the director's style were manifested, which were developed in his subsequent films. The shocking film Benny's Videotapes (1992) about the threat of popularizing violence in popular culture was nominated for the European Film Awards for Best Film. "Funny Games" was presented at the 50th Cannes Film Festival, and the film program included a warning about the presence of shocking scenes. The film, which film critic Andrei Plakhov called the most memorable in the program of that festival, did not receive, nevertheless, not a single award. Subsequently, in 2008, Haneke made an auto remake of "Funny Games" under the same name in the USA.
The film The Pianist, shot in French, awaited success, which in 2001 in Cannes brought the director the Grand Prix (the second most important award), and the leading actors Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel received festival awards. Hidden (2005), another French-language film by Haneke, confirmed his reputation as a major European director, and the black-and-white philosophical film The White Ribbon on the nature of human violence in 2009 brought him the Palme d'Or, the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival ... The award was presented to Haneke by the chairman of the jury of the festival - Isabelle Huppert. In 2012, the picture "Love", one of the most intimate in Haneke's filmography, repeated the success of his previous work, taking the main prize of the screening.
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