71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)

7.2Not Rated96 minDirector: Michael Haneke

1994 film by Michael Haneke

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (German: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is a 1994 drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It has a fragmented storyline as the title suggests, and chronicles several seemingly unrelated stories in parallel, but these separate narrative lines intersect in an incident at the end of the film. The film is set in Vienna from October to December 1993. Haneke refers to 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance as the last part of a trilogy, the other parts of which are his preceding two films The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video.

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What is 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance about?
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) — 71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Is 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance based on a true story?
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