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Obituary for a Murderer
GERMANY · 1991

Obituary for a Murderer

Michael Haneke
media representation violence in society Austrian cinema television critique mass murder
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Synopsis

Autumn 1990, a young Austrian goes to a party held by some of his friends and provokes a hideous bloodbath. As a reflection of daily reality and its crass representation of the horror of this extreme crime, Michael Haneke has composed an experimental collage of material gathered from one day of ORF (Austrian TV) broadcasting, using each part in proportion to the time allocated to it in the program

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