Movie Description

Benny's Video is a 1992 Austrian-Swiss horror-of-personality film directed by Michael Haneke. The plot of the film centers on Benny (Arno Frisch), a teenager who views much of his life as distilled through video images, and his well-to-do parents Anna (Angela Winkler) and Georg (Ulrich Mühe), who enable Benny's focus on video cameras and images. The film won the FIPRESCI Award at the 1993 European Film Awards. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.