The Seventh Continent
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| The Seventh Continent (Der Siebente Kontinent) |
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| Directed by | Michael Haneke |
| Produced by | Veit Heiduschka |
| Written by | Michael Haneke Johanna Teicht |
| Starring | Dieter Berner Birgit Doll Leni Tanzer |
| Music by | Alban Berg |
| Cinematography | Anton Peschke |
| Editing by | Marie Homolkova |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Country |  Austria |
| Language | German |
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The Seventh Continent (German: Der Siebente Kontinent) is a 1989 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. It is Haneke's debut feature film, inspired by a true story of a family that committed suicide. The film chronicles the last years of the Austrian middle class family.
A family, that consists of an engineer, an optician (his wife) and their daughter, spends urban life only to have a sudden decision to destroy their lives without any apparent reason. The film only implies some kind of their nervous depression and isolation in modern repetitive life.
The film is divided roughly into two parts. The first section is devoted to depict protagonists' sense of discomfort in the urban society. The notable second section contains over 30-minute sequences of exhaustive action of complete destruction. Intertitles at the last of the film suggests all of the story is based on a true event.
The title "The Seventh Continent" stands for an imaginary continent the family envisions in the film. Its image is visualized as a desert and isolated beach, accompanied by discreet sounds of waves in ominous tone.
Major themes of this debut film are subsequently detailed in the director Haneke's later works.
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