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Release Date:
4 March 1993 (Netherlands) morePlot:
A story about a boy called Benny, who watches violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Soon after, Benny loses his mind and kills a girl and films the murder with his video camera. | full synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
(7 articles)
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema (From The Movie Fanatic. 26 October 2009, 1:46 AM, PDT)
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
(From The Movie Fanatic. 26 October 2009, 1:46 AM, PDT)
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Negativeland more (23 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Arno Frisch | ... | Benny | |
| Angela Winkler | ... | Mother | |
| Ulrich Mühe | ... | Father | |
| Ingrid Stassner | ... | Young Girl | |
| Stephanie Brehme | |||
| Stefan Polasek | |||
| Christian Pundy | |||
| Max Berner | |||
| Hanspeter Müller | |||
| Shelley Kästner | |||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Wolfgang Böck | |||
| Cecile Gordon | |||
| Alfred Köberler | |||
| Paulus Manker | |||
| Gerhard Schmiepeter | |||
| Susanne Schneider | |||
| Dietrich Siegl | ... | (voice) | |
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Benny's Video (France) [fr]Bennyn video (Finland) [fi]
El vídeo de Benny (Spain) [es]
To video tou Benny (Greece) (TV title) [el]
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
105 minColor:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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UK:15 (re-rating) (2006) | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R18 | Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:18Filming Locations:
Vienna, AustriaFun Stuff
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Second part of Michael Haneke's "Glaciation Trilogy" also including Der siebente Kontinent (1989) and 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994). moreGoofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Benny leaves the phone booth in Egypt, the cameraman is visible in multiple window reflections. moreFAQ
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In his second film of the "glaciation trilogy", Haneke once more hauntingly draws a torpid affluent society where the people live at cross purposes, where conservations are rare and toilsome, where communication is alienated to a technical process. Accordingly to that, the emotional life of the protagonists became stunted: Benny, after his "act", shows concernment only through surrogate actions, just like letting his hair cropped. The father immediately slyly pushes to damage mitigation, whereas only the mother indicates rudiments of emotion, though somehow tense. In a confusing blend of film and video images, Haneke creates a second level of reality, so to speak, where Benny's senseless "act" perfectly integrates in the horror pictures of the evening news and makes it open for question. At the same time, Haneke commits himself to no specific answer and denies any absolution. That is what makes this film so horrifying - there simply is no telling argument that makes a murderer out of a young boy.