Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.
18 Facts About Michael Haneke
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Michael Haneke teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna.
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Michael Haneke later won the Grand Prix at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for The Piano Teacher and the Best Director Award for Cache at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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Michael Haneke subsequently directed the 2007 remake of his controversial 1997 film Funny Games.
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In 2013, Michael Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts.
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Michael Haneke is the son of German actor and director Fritz Michael Haneke and Austrian actress Beatrix von Degenschild.
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Michael Haneke was raised in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
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Michael Haneke showed a strong interest in literature and music, but as an adolescent developed a "downright contempt for any form of school".
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Michael Haneke had ambitions of becoming an actor in his youth, later abandoning these plans after failing an entrance examination at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.
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Michael Haneke later attended the University of Vienna to study philosophy, psychology and drama.
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Michael Haneke made his debut as a television director in 1974.
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Michael Haneke achieved great success in 2001 with the critically successful French film The Piano Teacher.
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Michael Haneke has worked with Juliette Binoche, after she expressed interest in working with him.
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Michael Haneke says that films should offer viewers more space for imagination and self-reflection.
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Films that have too much detail and moral clarity, Michael Haneke says, are used for mindless consumption by their viewers.
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That year, Michael Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts.
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Michael Haneke has directed a number of stage productions in German, which include works by Strindberg, Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin, Munich and Vienna.
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Michael Haneke realized this production at Madrid's Teatro Real in 2013.