Michael Haneke is read about 1,428 times a day, in 59 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
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Something wrong?He films the gaps where connection should be - the coldness inside comfortable lives, the violence humming under polite surfaces. Haneke's camera doesn't comfort; it watches you watching, and the discomfort is the point.
A life in dates
The RebellionFilm, Director, Writer2021
Trintignant by TrintignantFilm2019Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward2018Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and ArtAwardWas tut sich - im deutschen Film?Series, 2018Himself2017
Happy EndFilm, Director, Writer2014Sonning PrizeAward2013Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAwardCésar Award for Best DirectorAward
Michael H. - Profession: DirectorFilm, 20132012“Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.”In their wordsMay 2012On the meaning of pigeons in his movies, "Michael Haneke talks about Amour , interview by Karin Schiefer, Austrian Film Commission, May 2012European Film Award for Best FilmAwardHonorary Doctor of Paris 8 UniversityAward
Bergman's VideoSeries, 2012
AmourFilm, 2012Director, Writer2009European Film Award for Best FilmAwardEuropean Film Award for Best ScreenwriterAward2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' FortnightFilm2005European Film Award for Best DirectorAwardEuropean Film Award for Best FilmAward
24 Realities per SecondFilm, 2005Himself2004
KulturplatzSeries2002Gero von Boehm begegnet...Series2001Axel Corti PrizeAward
Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouerFilm, 20011998Konrad Wolf PrizeAward1997
Funny GamesFilm, Director, Writer1995
KulturzeitSeries
71 Fragments of a Chronology of ChanceFilm, 1995Director, Writer1993European Film Academy Critics AwardAward1992
Benny's VideoFilm, Director, Writer1990Romy AwardSeries1989
The Seventh ContinentFilm, Director, Writer1984
Who Was Edgar Allan?Film, Director, Writer1979Bavarian Film AwardsSeries
LemmingsSeries, 1979Director, Writer1976
Three Paths to the LakeFilm, Director, Writer1970
Scene of the CrimeSeries, Writer1951German Film AwardSeries1942Born23 March 1942Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 8
, Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.
I know very well the sorts of pressures you're under in television.
Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that - it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth.
Filmography 40
TRThe Rebellion
CHCode HanekeTTTrintignant by Trintignant
CYCinema Austria, the first 112 YearsHEHappy End
TKThe Legend of the Ugly King
TSThe Piano Teacher: Behind the Scenes - Postsync Sessions
FAFrench Cinema Mon Amour
TBTrespassing BergmanMDMichael H. - Profession: DirectorAMAmour
DHDie Jahrhundertfrau - Elisabeth Heller
TRThe White Ribbon
FGFunny GamesXF40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
INInthierryview
FCFace 'Caché'
CACachéRS24 Realities per Second
MIMichael Haneke Interview
TWTime of the Wolf
TTThe Piano TeacherIJIsabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer
CUCode UnknownFGFunny Games
TCThe Castle
CICharm's IncidentsFC71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
LCLumière & Company
THThe Moor's HeadBVBenny's Video
OMObituary for a MurdererTCThe Seventh Continent
FRFrauleinWAWho Was Edgar Allan?
VAVariationTLThree Paths to the Lake
TRTrash83 credits on file
Television 11
BVBergman's VideoKUKulturplatz
TWThrough the Night with...KUKulturzeitLELemmingsSCScene of the CrimeAwards
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Born 23 March 1942, Haneke began with a trilogy - The Seventh Continent (1989), Benny's Video (1992), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) - each dissecting a bureaucratic society where real bonds had withered into collective malaise, consumerism bleeding into violence. The Piano Teacher (2001) won Cannes' Grand Prix. He remade Funny Games in English nearly shot-for-shot in 2007, a provocation about audience complicity. The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012) each took the Palme d'Or; the latter won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna, working across French, German, English, television, and theatre.
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