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Benny's Video is a 1992 psychological horror [2] film directed by Michael Haneke and starring Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, and Ulrich Mühe. Set in Vienna, it centers on Benny, a teenager who views much of his life as distilled through video images, and his well-to-do parents Anna and Georg, who enable Benny's focus on video cameras and images.
Feb 11, 1993 · Benny's Video: Directed by Michael Haneke. With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner. A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Directed by Michael Haneke. With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe and Ingrid Stassner.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/42vexIZBlu-ray (Criterion) htt...
Arno Frisch plays Benny, a troubled teen obsessed by mass media, who manifests his violent fantasies by killing a girl he meets outside a video store. Benny's cold and calculating manner is ...
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Benny’s Video. Michael Haneke turns the unflinching gaze of the camera back on itself in this provocative, profoundly disturbing study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation.
Benny, 14, is a teenager whose well-to-do parents are absent most of the time. He fills this void by immersing himself in the world of video. Soon, the pictures he feeds on are overshadowing his sense of reality until Benny loses his mind. He films himself committing an unspeakable act of violence.
Arno Frisch, later to play one of the psychopathic young men in Funny Games, plays the 14 year-old Benny, who brings a girl home to his parents' empty apartment where he commits a shocking act...
