Funny Games

Funny Games

1997 · 1h 48m

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Full synopsis

Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

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Cast (10)

Susanne Lothar Susanne Lothar Anna Ulrich Mühe Ulrich Mühe Georg Arno Frisch Arno Frisch Paul Frank Giering Frank Giering Peter Stefan Clapczynski Stefan Clapczynski Georgie Doris Kunstmann Doris Kunstmann Gerda Christoph Bantzer Christoph Bantzer Fred Wolfgang Glück Robert Susanne Meneghel Gerda's Sister Monika Zallinger Eva