Anne Bennent, Branko Samarovski, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes

Mystery involving a 19-year-old student who, on the day before Christmas 1993, senselessly murders several people and then commits suicide.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Michael Haneke

Release Date: January 1, 1994

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DVD Release Date: May 16, 2006

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  • April 25, 2009
    No thanks - Not interested
  • December 20, 2008
    On Christmas Eve, 1993, a nineteen-year-old university student entered a Viennese bank and killed three people before turning the gun on himself. But why should we care? We rationalize away the presence of evil and the pain of others, paraded daily on the evening news, with trite...( read more) psychological or sociological explanations. Haneke describes this condition in hypnotic and foreboding detail in 71 Fragments, which depicts the random, or fateful, convergence of strangers that day at the bank as a puzzle that will remain unresolved, mysterious, and deeply disturbing.
  • July 8, 2008
    Pretty interesting. Nice ending.
  • February 24, 2008
    People talk but we didn't really understand each others. Cummunication Technology flys high.. more we ignore each others.. That's what Michael Haneke always wanna talk to us.



    Like i always say.. 4 stars for Haneke is better than ordinary 4 stars!! This is one of his ...( read more)master works for many reasons.. The story is really interestin' for nowaday, The Directing is beautiful and impacted.. He knows how to tell the story.. what should he show, what shouldn't. We've been kept out from passionate feeling.. Being a great gaze of city lifes!! Feel the cool and distant feeling of the story!!



    After I've been watched 7 films of Haneke, I surely could say.. He is my Great Director in decade..
  • December 13, 2007
    This movie splices actors with news footage from the Clinton era. It was a little hard to understand sometimes, but it worked.

    I don't know why they put the news stories in there unless it was to show that it was a turbulent time for everyone. When the main character snaps and...( read more) kills everyone, they stop making sense.

    Weird movie.
  • December 10, 2007
    I'm gonna ride the fence on this review. I can't say I hated or liked it. What I saw was interesting(?); however, what I don't remember anything that's listed in the synopsis. This may have to do with the fact that I slept through at least half the movie. Hanake has this thin...( read more)g with LONG scenes with no action. I'm all about pacing, but this pace is too slow. I do know I'm not really interested in trying to watch it again.
  • December 4, 2007
    I like this movie. It follows several different plot lines told in a fragmentary manner, with a backdrop of Clinton's monumental failures in Kosovo, as well as Haiti, and other places. If there was just a little bit more to it, I would have given it 5 stars.

Critic Reviews


May 2, 2007
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Segues between its various pawns before coldly, cruelly sending them to their execution. full review

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