Although to the outside world he seems like a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Acting
Fuith's blank normalcy is more terrifying than any villain performance.
Direction
Schleinzer refuses to sensationalize. The restraint is the horror.
Director
Markus Schleinzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months after the Fritzl case verdict, it sparked debates about Austrian cinema's obligation to confront national trauma.
Schleinzer, Haneke's longtime casting director, learned that the banality of evil requires casting faces you'd forget in a crowd.
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