71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
(71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls)
Screening on Film
Directed by Michael Haneke.
With G. Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Kino, Otto Grühandl.
Austria, 1994, 35mm, color, 96 min.
German with English subtitles.
With G. Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Kino, Otto Grühandl.
Austria, 1994, 35mm, color, 96 min.
German with English subtitles.
Haneke’s analytical camera traces the everyday lives of a group of strangers culminating in a tragic series of events on Christmas Eve. The fragments of their existence including an endless ping-pong match, a comic book theft and an extended family phone conversation are laid along excerpts of the evening news to form an extraordinary, terrible whole.