The Seventh Continent

The Seventh Continent is a 1989 Austrian drama directed by Michael Haneke. The film tells the story of an urban middle-class family that lives a plain and uneventful life. Georg (Dieter Berner) works as an engineer, his wife Anna (Birgit Doll) is an optician and they have a young daughter Eva (Leni Tanzer). The last years of their life are depicted in the film, as they decide to commit suicide due to a nervous breakdown or depression caused by daily routine. The scenes that contain mostly action, without much speech, are showing the family closing their bank accounts, quitting their jobs, selling their car and telling people that they are emigrating to Australia. They treat themselves with a luxurious meal, start destroying all their property and flushing the money in the toilet, before carrying on their suicide plan. The title of the film "The Seventh Continent" is a reference to Australia, symbolizing the escape from the isolation in modern society and the boring repetitive life. MORE [EDIT]

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Release Date: 1989

Duration: 1:44:00

Director: Michael Haneke

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