Code Unknown
- Juliette Binoche: Anne Laurent
- Thierry Neuvic: Georges
- Josef Bichler beer: Bauer
- Alexandre Hamidi: Jean
- Maimouna Hélène Diarra: Aminate
- Ona Lu Yenke: Amadou
- Djibril Kouyaté: Father
- Luminiţa Gheorghiu: Maria
- Crenguta Harion Irina
- Bob Nicolescu: Dragos
- Bruno Todeschini: Pierre
- Paulus Manker: Perrin
Code: unknown is a Franco- German - Romanian movie by Michael Haneke 's 2000 French Title Code inconnu has the additional subtitle Recit incomplet de divers voyages, which means in German as " Incomplete story about different journeys ". .
Action
The film begins with a deaf girl to represent a concept that other, equally deaf children tried but which is not guess.
The actress Anne is in a relationship with photographer Georges, but works mostly in areas of conflict and increasingly alienated from normal life. He has a younger brother named Jean, who flees from his father to Paris, because it forces him to take over the family farm. He wants to stay with Anne and George, but he does not know the code for the front door and can not in their apartment. When he meets Anne, who has to take a test, she buys for both pastries, takes a part for himself, Jean gives the rest and gives him the code for the front door.
When Jean has finished eating, he throws the empty bag of Romanian beggar Mary 's lap. The young Senegalese Amadou sees it and confronts him, he should apologize to the beggar. The dispute escalates and ends in a brawl until the police come and Amadou entrains despite a valid papers. Its use Amadou has the policemen recognized unintentionally to the beggar who control and determine, as it is illegal in France.
Now recordings are seen with Anne, who with a real estate broker makes a commission house in a role as an actress and these amazement at a room with bricked windows indicating. To demonstrate the broker closes the door to show that there is no noise from outside enters the room. Suddenly she hears a camera man say that he had trapped her and now gas would usher in the room to film the pure fear in her face.
After Anne is seen in her apartment while ironing. Through the wall to the neighbor hears the cries of a child who is being abused by his father apparently. Later, they discovered a small note with the cry for help of a nine- year-old girl. When she goes shopping with George, she explained the matter to him, but he knows not the Council, reflecting the two fall into dispute.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film was that " just as tight as exciting film" prove to be a Michael Haneke's renewed "In Praise of the fragmentary " and as an objection to the " constant tendency of the human mind to sense-making ."
The TV Magazine prisma wrote this episode movie sees itself as a " pessimistic view of current imbalances ", especially the " isolation of the individual." Here, director Haneke press so hearty the " educational stamp " on the various stories that even the good actors could not save anything and came to the conclusion that continuous " Laber land " about the search for identity in this communication poor consumer society in " no way " (sic) original are but " a long run extremely on the nerves " would go.
Awards
- On the CamerImage Film Festival 2000, the film was nominated for a Golden Frog.
- At the International Film Festival of Cannes 2000, the film was awarded the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. He was also nominated for the Golden Palm.