Code: unknown

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Movie
German title Code: unknown
Original title Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages
Country of production France , Germany , Romania
original language Romanian , French , German , English , Arabic
Publishing year 2000
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Michael Haneke
script Michael Haneke
production Marin Karmitz ,
Alain Sarde
music Giba Gonçalves
camera Jürgen Juerges
cut Karin Hartusch ,
Nadine Muse ,
Andreas Prochaska
occupation

Code: unbekannt is a French-German-Romanian film by Michael Haneke from 2000 . The French title Code inconnu also has the subtitle Récit incomplet de divers voyages , which in German means, for example, "Incomplete narrative about various journeys".

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The film begins with a deaf girl who tries to explain a term to other, equally deaf children, but cannot guess it.

The actress Anne is in a relationship with the photographer Georges, who mostly works in crisis areas and is becoming increasingly alienated from normal life. He has a younger brother named Jean, who flees to Paris before his father, who forces him to take over his parents' farm. He wants to stay with Anne and Georges, but he doesn't know the code for the front door and can't get into their apartment. When he meets Anne, who has to go to a sample, she buys pastries for both of them, takes a part for herself, gives Jean the rest and gives him the code for the front door.

When Jean has finished eating, he throws the empty bag of the Romanian beggar Maria into the lap. The young Senegalese Amadou sees it and confronts him, asking him to apologize to the beggar woman. The dispute escalates and ends in a fight, until the police arrive and take Amadou away despite valid papers. Through his intervention, Amadou unintentionally set the police officers on the beggar, who they control and discover that she is illegal in France.

Now you can see pictures of Anne, who, in a role as an actress, does a house inspection with a real estate agent and points out a room with walled-up windows. As a demonstration, the agent closes the door to show that no outside noise is entering the room. Suddenly she hears a cameraman say that he has locked her in and that he will now pump gas into the room to film the sheer fear on her face.

Then Anne can be seen ironing in her apartment. Through the wall to the neighbor she hears the screaming of a child who is apparently being abused by his father. Later she discovers a small piece of paper with a call for help from a nine-year-old girl. When she goes shopping with Georges, she explains the matter to him, but he has no idea what makes the two fall into an argument.

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The lexicon of international film found that the “ film that is as dense as it is exciting” proves to be Michael Haneke's renewed “praise of the fragmentary” and an objection to the “constant tendency of the human mind to create meaning”.

The TV magazine prisma wrote that this episode film was to be understood as a “pessimistic view of current disparities”, especially the “isolation of the individual”. Director Haneke put the "educational stamp" on the various stories so hard that even the good actors couldn't save anything and came to the conclusion that constant " babbling " about the search for identity in this low- communication consumer society is "in no way" (sic!) Original but would “get extremely annoying in the long run”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Code: unknown. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ prisma-online.de