Benny’s Video

Benny’s Video (Benny’s Video), 1992*

Austria-Switzerland, 35mm, Color, 105’

Cast:Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe

Language: Arabic, English, French, German

Screening: Thursday 7 March, 15:00

In the second film of Haneke’s “Glaciation Trilogy”, a 14- year-old Benny, thinking that the scenes of violence he watches on Hollywood films are just ketchup and plastics, wants to verify what he sees. Therefore he cold bloodedly shoots his girlfriend whom he has invited to his house and videotapes the event.

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