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Michael Haneke
FilmmakerKnown for:
Amour (2012), The White Ribbon (2009)
Education:
University of Vienna (philosophy, psychology, drama); no formal film school
Michael Haneke worked in Austrian television for more than two decades before directing his first feature, developing a cinema of deliberate discomfort that implicates the audience in the violence it witnesses. Funny Games (1997), The Piano Teacher (2001), and Caché (2005) are exercises in formal cruelty as moral argument. The White Ribbon (2009) won the Palme d'Or at Cannes; Amour (2012) won both the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Haneke shot "Amour" (2012) on the ARRI ALEXA with cinematographer Darius Khondji. The system is discussed in their published interviews about the production.
Product description
Introduced in 2010, the ARRI ALEXA is a digital cinema camera that rapidly became the industry standard for high-end film and television production. Its large-format sensor and proprietary ALEV color science produced an image quality that many cinematographers considered closer to film than any preceding digital system. It has been used to shoot Academy Award-winning films including Gravity, Birdman, and Parasite.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
