Yves Beneyton

Determined to collect an inheritance, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them.

Adapted from a story by celebrated writer Ingeborg Bachmann, this early television film by Michael Haneke finds the Austrian auteur already exploring some of his key themes—of family dynamics, media, and the relationship between the individual and society at large—with subtle flashes of the famously rigorous style he would later develop. While visiting her elderly father in the small countryside town where she grew up, Elisabeth (Ursula Schult), a renowned war photographer, must reckon with both past memories and the meaning of her work.

Follow along with a day in the life of a married mother of two in Paris who works as a prostitute during the day.

The riveting true story of Nick Leeson, a futures trader whose risky financial wagering brought down Barings Bank, one of Britain’s oldest and most successful financial institutions.