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SPIEGEL Interview with Director Michael Haneke:
'Every Film Rapes the Viewer'
Austrian director Michael Haneke discusses his shocking new film, "The White Ribbon," which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, his penchant for gloomy stories that unnerve his viewers and his unsettling view of humanity. (...)
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ABOUT MICHAEL HANEKE
Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors of European auteur cinema. He worked for two decades as a television editor, theater and TV director, before directing his first feature film, "The Seventh Continent," in 1989. In films like the study of violence "Funny Games" (1997), "The Piano Teacher" (2001), an adaptation of an Elfriede Jelinek novel, and the thriller "Caché" (2005), Haneke, born in Austria in 1942, dissects the fragility of middle-class life and man's culpability. In his new film "The White Ribbon," which is currently in German theaters and set for release in the United States in December, he portrays life in a northern German village on the eve of World War I. In the nightmarish work, which was awarded the Palme d'Or in Cannes in May and is vying for an Oscar nomination, Haneke describes a world shaped by rigid Protestantism, discipline carried to extremes, narrow-mindedness, mendacity and coldness -- and leaves his audience deeply troubled.
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