71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance German 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls is a 1994 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. It has a fragmented storyline as the title suggests, and chronicles several unrelated stories in parallel. Separate narrative lines intersect in an incident at the last of the film a mass killing at an Austrian bank. The film is set in Vienna, October to December 1993. Haneke refers to 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance as the last part of his glaciation trilogy, whose other parts are his preceding two films.

The drama consists of varied characters in each storyline a Romanian boy who immigrated illegally into Austria and lives in streets of Vienna a religious bank security worker an old man staring at TV screen a childless couple considering adoption a frustrated student and so on.The film is divided into a number of variablelength fragments divided by black pauses, and apparently unrelated to each other. The film is characterised by quite a lot of fragments that take form of video newscasts unrelated to the main storylines. News footages of real events are shown through video monitors. Newscasts report on Bosnian War, Somali Civil War, South Lebanon conflict, KurdishTurkish conflict, and molestation allegations against Michael Jackson. ........

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