FUNNY GAMES
A film by Michael Haneke
French Distribution • International Sales
FUNNY GAMES
A film by Michael Haneke
With
Susanne Lothar
Ulrich Mühe
Arno Frisch
Frank Giering
French Distribution • International Sales
Releases
French Release on 14-01-1998
World Premiere: Festival de Cannes 1997
Genre
Drama
Synopsis
It is the start of the holiday. Anna, Georg and their young son Georgie travel to their idyllic lakeside house. Their neighbours, Fred and Eva, are already there. They have arranged to play golf together for the next day. The weather is superb.
While father and son are rigging up their freshly overhauled sailing boat, Anna prepares supper. Suddenly Peter, a young, evidently well-bred guest of their neighbours, is standing at the front door asking Anna for a few eggs, explaining that Eva has started cooking and run out of eggs. Anna willingly complies with the request. Then stopping abruptly she asks how he has entered their property. Peter replies that there is a hole in the fence which Fred had shown him...
