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Benny's Video
Directed by
Michael Haneke
Not Rated
1992
1h 50m
Crime
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Drama
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7.1
62%
75%
6.9
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A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
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Cast of Benny's Video
Arno Frisch
Benny
Angela Winkler
Anna, Benny's Mother
Ulrich Mühe
Georg, Benny's Father
Stephanie Brehme
Evi, Benny's Sister
Stefan Polasek
Ricci
Ingrid Stassner
Girl
Martin Schoendelin
Sales manager in videostore (uncredited)
Christian Pundy
Max Berner
Shelley Kästner
Hanspeter Müller
Wolfgang Böck
Cecile Gordon
Paulus Manker
Brigitte Reimann
Self (archive footage)
Ulrike von der Groeben
Self (archive footage)
Imelda Marcos
Self (archive footage)
Hans Meiser
Self (archive footage)
Susanne Schneider
Self (archive footage)
Michael Haneke
Director / Screenplay
Benny's Video Ratings & Reviews
Vague Visages
Marshall Shaffer
By continuing to collapse the demarcations - or eradicating them altogether - the anesthetizing effect of the violent image on screen will spill over into the response to real-life injustices.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
plays with a cool, clinical sense of detachment that makes its interpersonal and physical horrors resonate in ways that graphic violence and visual bombast simply couldn't match
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
The second panel in Haneke's trilogy (preceded by Seventh Continent and followed by 71 Fragments) offers a chilling and haunting postmodern look at isolation, alienation and violence, with a critique of mass media effects on actual behavior.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
[Makes] arguments that Haneke delivers with frosty menace but, alas, an also typically pedantic, haranguing tenor.
Cinematic Reflections
Derek Smith
Similar to The Seventh Continent, this film's objective is to analyze and deconstruct the effects rather than senselessly guess their causes
Filmcritic.com
Keith Breese
in the end, with a character that repellent and a message so heavy handed, there is no need to commit ourselves to this bitter, merciless film.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
In some ways, the portrait of his parents is even more chilling.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
What gives the film a chilly authenticity is the creepy performance of Arno Frisch in the title role.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
A smug, contemptuous, passive-aggressive attack on the dehumanizing effects of media.
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