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5	Michael Haneke (born 23 March 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.
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7	He is best known for films such as ''Film/FunnyGames'' (1997), ''Film/{{Cache}}'' (2005), ''Film/TheWhiteRibbon'' (2009) and ''Film/{{Amour}}'' (2012). His works often examines social issues, and depict the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society.
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9	!!Michael Haneke's filmography includes:
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12	* ''Film/TheSeventhContinent'' (1989)
13	* ''Film/BennysVideo'' (1992)
14	* ''Film/SeventyOneFragmentsOfAChronologyOfChance'' (1994)
15	* ''Film/FunnyGames'' (1997, remade 2007)
16	* ''Film/CodeUnknown'' (2000)
17	* ''Film/ThePianoTeacher'' (2001)
18	* ''Film/TimeOfTheWolf'' (2003)
19	* ''Film/{{Cache}}'' (2005)
20	* ''Film/TheWhiteRibbon'' (2009)
21	* ''Film/{{Amour}}'' (2012)
22	* ''Film/HappyEnd'' (2017)
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25	!!Tropes associated with Haneke's films:
26	* CreatorThumbprint:
27	** Many of his protagonists are a married couple named Georges and Ann.
28	** The surname ''Laurent'' appears in all his French-speaking works.
29	* DeathOfAChild: In Haneke's films, children are just as likely to die as adults.
30	* {{Euroshlock}}: Several of his films fall here.
31	** ''Film/FunnyGames'' features violent youth hurting people for fun.
32	** ''Film/ThePianoTeacher'' is about sexual violence.
33	* DownerEnding: When his films actually have closure, it's usually not happy.
34	* FadeToBlack: Scenes often cut uprightly to black before moving on the next scene.
35	* LeFilmArtistique: Several of Haneke's films are made to make a point rather than to be enjoyable or entertaining.
36	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Haneke often employs extremely long static takes, as seen in ''Benny's Video'', ''Film/CodeUnknown'', ''Film/{{Cache}}'', and ''Film/{{Amour}}''.
37	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Often the music provided in-universe is only realized as such after a character stops a record or turns a channel.
38	* NoEnding: His plots often lack closure.
39	* {{Realism}}: His works are often described as this since they often feature unremarkable scenes of everyday life and lack non-diegetic sound.
40	* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: His films usually don't feature a score.
41	* SilentCredits: Silent opening and closing credits are one of Haneke's trademarks.
42	* SliceOfLife: His films feature lots of shots of characters doing mundane activities to emphasize the emptiness and loneliness that they are going through.
43	* ViolenceIsDisturbing: Predominantly violence against animals as demonstrated by the death of the family dog in ''Funny Games'', the butchery of a squealing pig in ''Benny's Video'' and a chicken in ''Caché'', the culling of a bunch of cattle in ''Code Unknown'', and squickiest of all, the horses that have their throats slit in ''Time of the Wolf''.
44	* VomitIndiscretionShot: The father in ''The Seventh Continent'' as well as the female protagonists in ''Funny Games'' and ''The Piano Teacher'' vomit on screen.

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