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Lemmings: Part 1 – Arcades

Directed by Michael Haneke

Lemmings: Part 2 – Injuries

Directed by Michael Haneke

This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap between 1950s teenagers and their parents while the second shows this same group of characters twenty years later as they have grown up to be dysfunctional and suicidal adults. Regarded as the most significant of Haneke’s early works, Lemmings contains incipient treatments of many of the themes he would later elaborate on in his theatrical features.

PROGRAM

  • Lemmings: Part 1 – Arcades

    Directed by Michael Haneke.
    With Regina Sattler, Christian Ingomar, Eva Linder.
    Austria/West Germany, 1979, digital video, color, 113 min.
    German with English subtitles.
  • Lemmings: Part 2 – Injuries

    Directed by Michael Haneke.
    With Monica Bleibtreu, Elfriede Irrall, Rüdiger Hacker.
    Austria/West Germany, 1979, digital video, color, 107 min.
    German with English subtitles.

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