Neighbors Gerda and Robert arrive at the family's dock on a boat. It soon becomes evident that the two men have taken the family hostage. Paul reveals he has killed Rolfi, and taunts Anna with a cruel searching game (during which he turns around and winks at the camera) until she finds the dog's corpse. Peter then breaks Georg's leg with the latter's golf club.
Georg arrives and tries to eject them from the premises as well. When it is clear that Peter and Paul are insidiously imposing themselves on Anna's courtesy, she demands that the men leave. While Paul is outside with the club, Georg hears Rolfi's constant barking suddenly come to a whining halt.
Paul arrives shortly thereafter and decides to try one of Georg's golf clubs, taking Anna's permission for granted. This man, later named as Peter, gradually overstays his welcome by breaking successive batches of eggs and submerging the family's phone into the kitchen sink water, all seemingly done by accident. Shortly after the family settles in, and while Georg is still setting up the boat, the other young unidentified man comes to Anna's kitchen to borrow eggs on Eva's behalf. Fred visits minutes later with one of the men, whom he introduces as Paul, the son of a friend. The Schobers notice the strange behavior displayed by the Berlingers and the apparent absence of their daughter Sissi. On the drive over, they spot their next-door neighbors Fred and Eva Berlinger accompanied by two young Viennese men whom they do not recognize. Georg Schober, his wife Anna, their son Georgie, and their dog Rolfi arrive at their holiday home beside a lake in Austria.
A shot-for-shot remake, filmed and set in the United States, was released in 2007, also directed by Haneke, this time with an English-speaking cast and a mostly American crew. The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. The plot involves two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games in their vacation home. Funny Games is a 1997 Austrian psychological horror film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, and Arno Frisch.
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