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Benny's Video

Play trailer Poster for Benny's Video 1992,  1h 45m,  Mystery & Thriller/ Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 62% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 75% 2,500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
62% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 75% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
Obsessed with violent movies and video technology, 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch) takes advantage of his parents' absence to have a girl (Ingrid Stassner) come over and watch a tape of a pig slaughter he has viewed repeatedly. Afterward, he kills her with the slaughtering gun used in the video -- and records the murder. His parents decide to cover up his crime. While his mother (Angela Winkler) takes a seemingly indifferent Benny to Egypt, his father (Ulrich Mühe) gets rid of the evidence.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Apr 18, 2007
C
[Makes] arguments that Haneke delivers with frosty menace but, alas, an also typically pedantic, haranguing tenor. Go to Full Review
Geoff Andrew Time Out Jun 24, 2006
An unsettling if not entirely successful social-cum-psychological drama. Go to Full Review
Stephen Holden New York Times May 6, 2006
What gives the film a chilly authenticity is the creepy performance of Arno Frisch in the title role. Go to Full Review
Marshall Shaffer Vague Visages Dec 6, 2023
By continuing to collapse the demarcations — or eradicating them altogether — the anesthetizing effect of the violent image on screen will spill over into the response to real-life injustices. Go to Full Review
Yasser Medina Cinefilia May 8, 2023
5/10
Haneke implements some cinéma vérité codes to examine the impact of violence in an image-alienated postmodern society, but its effects are lost amid flickering recordings and aesthetic pretensions. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Mar 27, 2023
3.5/4
plays with a cool, clinical sense of detachment that makes its interpersonal and physical horrors resonate in ways that graphic violence and visual bombast simply couldn’t match Go to Full Review
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Theodore M Nov 10, 2018 Like The Seventh Continent, this is a disturbing film that wants to probe into the glacial apathy of modern society (and also the sociopaths it creates), even though Haneke seems a bit too categorical in his criticism of mass media as something inherently alienating and damaging. See more
Finn W Apr 19, 2018 Not worth a Haneke joint.
Leia S Jul 9, 2017 A very hard to watch movie and I don't mean its pacing. The pace of this movie is perfect and surgically precise. Indeed this movie is not for everyone's taste. But once you are into it you can't get your eyes off of it. This objective style of film-making is very appealing to me. The director doesn't interfere with the viewers with his obvious remarks towards how to interpret a movie. He leaves that part for the audience. Indeed it is a screaming commentary on the influence of media on young generation; apathetic, disillusioned young generation. See more
Luke R Feb 20, 2017 M-F 8.3 [Michael Haneke]
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Cast & Crew

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Michael Haneke

Director

Arno Frisch

Benny

Angela Winkler

Mutter

Ulrich Mühe

Vater

Ingrid Stassner

Mädchen

Stephanie Brehme

Evi

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Movie Info

Synopsis Obsessed with violent movies and video technology, 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch) takes advantage of his parents' absence to have a girl (Ingrid Stassner) come over and watch a tape of a pig slaughter he has viewed repeatedly. Afterward, he kills her with the slaughtering gun used in the video -- and records the murder. His parents decide to cover up his crime. While his mother (Angela Winkler) takes a seemingly indifferent Benny to Egypt, his father (Ulrich Mühe) gets rid of the evidence.
Director
Michael Haneke
Producer
Veit Heiduschka, Bernard Lang
Screenwriter
Michael Haneke
Production Co
Wega Film, Bernard Lang, Langfilm
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jun 11, 2007
Runtime
1h 45m
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