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Funny Games (1997) More at IMDbPro »

• Paul says the line "We're not up to feature film length yet" at exactly the 95-minute mark of the movie.
  
  
• Director Michael Haneke has said that he never intended 'Funny Games' to be a horror film. Instead his idea was to make a film with a moralistic comment about the influence of media violence on society. It's a subject that Haneke is quite passionate about.
  
  
• When the film was screened at Cannes in 1997 it shocked the audience badly enough that many viewers, including some film critics, walked out of the screening.
  
  
• According to director Michael Haneke, star Susanne Lothar would often have to force herself to cry for nearly 20 minutes before her takes. He said the scene in which she is forced to pray required 28 takes and Lothar was tremendously drained by the ordeal. It was the weakened reaction that Haneke wanted from her for the scene.
  
  
• Director Michael Haneke told producer 'Viet Heiduschka' during the production that if the film was a success, it would be because audiences had misunderstood the meaning behind it.
  
  

• SPOILER: The scene where Anna and Georg recover and free themselves after the criminals leave their house the first time is a single take lasting just over ten minutes.
  
  

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