71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
| 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Directed by | Michael Haneke |
| Produced by | Veit Heiduschka |
| Written by | Michael Haneke |
| Starring |
Gabriel Cosmin Urdes Lukas Miko Otto Grünmandl Anne Bennent Udo Samel |
| Cinematography | Christian Berger |
| Edited by | Marie Homolkova |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country |
Austria Germany |
| Language |
German Romanian |
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (German: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is a 1994 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. It has a fragmented storyline as the title suggests, and chronicles several unrelated stories in parallel. Separate narrative lines intersect in an incident at the last of the film: a mass killing at an Austrian bank. The film is set in Vienna, October to December 1993. Haneke refers to 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance as the last part of his "glaciation trilogy", whose other parts are his preceding two films.
Cast
- Gabriel Cosmin Urdes as Marian Radu (Romanian Boy)
- Lukas Miko as Max
- Otto Grünmandl as Tomek
- Anne Bennent as Inge Brunner
- Udo Samel as Paul Brunner
- Branko Samarovski as Hans
- Claudia Martini as Maria
- Georg Friedrich as Bernie
- Alexander Pschill as Hanno
- Klaus Händl as Gerhard
- Corina Eder as Anni
- Sebastian Stan as Kid in Subway
Opening
The film opens with intertitles which introduces the mass killing in detail. So it chronicles in flashbacks a last few months of Vienna.
Characters
The drama consists of varied characters in each storyline: a Romanian boy who immigrated illegally into Austria and lives in streets of Vienna; a religious bank security worker; an old man staring at TV screen; a childless couple considering adoption; a frustrated student and so on.
Film division
The film is divided into a number of variable-length "fragments" divided by black pauses, and apparently unrelated to each other. The film is characterised by quite a lot of fragments that take form of video newscasts unrelated to the main storylines. News footages of real events are shown through video monitors. Newscasts report on Bosnian War, Somali Civil War, South Lebanon conflict, Kurdish–Turkish conflict, and molestation allegations against Michael Jackson.
References
External links
- 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls on IMDb
- 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
(71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) at AllMovie