71 FRAGMENTE EINER CHRONOLOGIE DES ZUFALLS
Michael Haneke
Austria 1994
95 min.
German and Romanian with subtitles, 35mm

Haneke based this drama on the true story of a teenager who randomly murdered three people in a Viennese bank, then committed suicide. Occasionally using documentary footage, the filmmaker methodically structures 71 sequences, following all four characters backward from the moment of death. Haneke’s trilogy about the banality of violence ends brilliantly in this masterwork.