BENNY’S VIDEO
A film by Michael Haneke
CAST Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek, Christian Pundy, Max Berner, Paulus Manker a.o.
SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTOR Michael Haneke
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Christian Berger
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Christoph Kanter
COSTUME DESIGNER Erika Navas
SOUND ENGINEER Karl Schlifelner
EDITOR Marie Homolkova
PRODUCTION SEKRETARY Ulrike Lässer
PRODUCTION MANAGER Michael Katz, Gebhard Zupan
PRODUCERS Veit Heiduschka, Bernard Lang
PRODUCTION COMPANY WEGA-Filmproduktion / Bernard Lang (CH)
WORLD SALES Les Films du Losange
TECHNICAL DATA 105 min., 35mm, Colour, Mono, © 1992
Synopsis
Benny is a young adolescent from a wealthy family. His parents leave him largely to his own devices, and he finds an emotional substitute in the world of video films.
Gradually, without the people around him noticing, his values and his sense of reality begin to change.
He meets a girl of about his own age and takes her home with him one weekend. The apartment is empty - his parents have gone to the country. What begins as a shy love story ends in a catastrophe: the life of the family can never be the same again.
