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Film discussion with director Michael Haneke on the occasion of his visit to the German Film Museum on March 15, 2018. Michael Haneke selected ten films for the CARTE BLANCHE series. Moderation: Urs Spörri. Michael Haneke is one of the most important filmmakers of our time and his work has been honored with almost every major award in the film industry; from the Oscar® for AMOUR (AT/FR/DE 2013), which, like THE WHITE RIBBON - A GERMAN CHILDREN'S STORY (DE/AT/FR/IT 2009), was also awarded a Golden Globe Award and a Golden Palm in Cannes, to numerous German and European film awards. Films such as BENNY'S VIDEO (AT/CH 1992), FUNNY GAMES (AT 1997), LA PIANISTE (The Piano Teacher, AT/FR/DE 2001) and CACHÉ (FR/AT/DE/IT 2005) have long been considered modern classics. With his films, Michael Haneke demands a lot from his audience: "I want to force the viewer to defend themselves." Only when society becomes uncanny to us, wrote Die Zeit in 2009, do we realize how wrong it is. The cinema of the German Film Museum in Frankfurt is honoring Michael Haneke with carte blanche. For a month, the film series will present those works from film history that have particularly shaped and influenced the director. Haneke himself appears on the screen at each screening: in video messages, he explains the background to his selection and invites the cinema audience to look at them from a new perspective. The selection is made up of masters of European cinema: Andrej Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini and Alexander Kluge are next to the American John Cassavetes and the two Iranian directors Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi. However, Haneke says that the most important film for him is a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini: SALÒ O LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA – The 120 Days of Sodom (IT/FR 1975). Film series: https://deutsches-filminstitut.de/blo... Event at the German Film Museum, March 15, 2018