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Who Was Edgar Allan?
(Wer war Edgar Allan?)

Directed by Michael Haneke.
With Paulus Manker, Rolf Hoppe, Guido Wieland.
Austria/West Germany, 1984, digital video, color, 83 min.
German with English subtitles.

In this adaptation of Peter Rosei’s post-modern thriller made for German television, an art history student who becomes obsessed with and mysteriously linked to an American. Despite the aesthetic limitations of small-screen presentation, Haneke’s sophisticated mise-en-scène fully exploits the film’s stylish Venice locale.

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