Benny’s Video

Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 1992
Country: Austria | Switzerland
Language(s): German | English | Arabic | French
Subtitles: English
Length: 105 mins
Format: PAL
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.66: 1

Synopsis

Michael Haneke’s disturbing film portrays the alienation of a young boy, whose experience of the world is refracted through the lens of his video camera and his television screen. Arno Frisch, later to play one of the psychopathic young men in Funny Games, plays the 14 year-old Benny, who brings a girl home to his parents’ empty apartment where he commits a shocking act of casual violence. As with his later Funny Games, Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions about voyeurism and violence - both actual and imagined.