Feature Film

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

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On Christmas Eve 1993 a 19 year-old student killed several people – all of whom were complete strangers – for no apparent reason. What brought victims and killer together? As in the first two parts of the trilogy ('Der siebente Kontinent', 'Benny's Video'), the focus of the plot is created by an act of violence lacking sufficient explanatory motive.

Data

Category: Feature Film
Financing: Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format: 35 mm, 96 Min
Approximate cinema release: 24. September 1994
Release: 24.09.1994
Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions: 4.498
Co-production: Camera Film (DE)
Festivals & Awards (Selection): Preise:
1994: Cannes (Director's Fortnight)
1994: Chicago (Golden Hugo Award)
1994: Goldener Kader for best Feature Film
1994: Sitges (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Prize of the Catalan Screenwriter's Critic and Writer's Association)
1994: Genf (Stars de Demain, Special Mention of the Jury for Lukas Miko)
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Wien, Perchtoldsdorf, Vösendorf, Baden, Laa an der Thaya
Shooting time: Oktober bis Dezember 1993
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer: Veit Heiduschka
Director: Michael Haneke
Script: Michael Haneke
DOP: Christian Berger
Editor: Maria Homolkova
Sound engineer: Marc Parisotto
Costume design: Erika Navas
Set design: Christoph Kanter
Cast: Lukas Miko (Max), Klaus Händl (Gerhard), Otto Grünmandl (der Alte), Georg Friedrich (Bernie)
Production manager: Hermann Wolf
International distribution: Les Films du Losange
German Title: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF