Direction: Béla Tarr

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Mihály Víg · Putyi Horváth · Peter Berling · Erika Bók

Plot In a small dilapidated village in post-communist Hungary, life has come to a virtual standstill. The autumn rains have started. The villagers expect to receive a large cash payment that...

Direction Béla Tarr · Ágnes Hranitzky

Cast Lars Rudolph · Peter Fitz · Hanna Schygulla · János Derzsi

Plot This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather -...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Miklós B. Székely · Gyula Pauer · Hédi Temessy · György Cserhalmi

Plot Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence...

Direction Béla Tarr · Ágnes Hranitzky

Cast János Derzsi · Erika Bók · Mihály Kormos

Plot Year 1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse's neck to protect it then collapsed...

Direction Béla Tarr · Ágnes Hranitzky

Cast Erika Bók · Tilda Swinton · János Derzsi · Ági Szirtes

Plot Maloin leads a simple life without prospects at the edge of the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevitable deterioration of...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Hédi Temessy · Erika Bodnár · Miklós B. Székely · Pál Hetényi

Plot Five people live in close quarters in a small apartment. A single, older mother owns the apartment, where she is tended by a nurse who has brought along a presumed...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Laszlone Horvath · Gábor Kun · László Horváth

Plot In 1978, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr released FAMILY NEST onto the world. It told the story of life under the opressive Communist regime that ruled over Tarr's country at the...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Judit Pogány · Róbert Koltai · Kyri Ambrus · Jánosné Bráda

Plot A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast András Szabó · Jolan Fodor · Imre Donko · Istvan Bolla

Plot Portrait of a young unstable man, unable to find happiness with a woman. Once a factory worker and nurse. Plays the violin, get kicked out of music school. Becomes a...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast György Cserhalmi · Erzsébet Kútvölgyi · János Ács · Ferenc Bencze

Plot Made for television, this version of Shakespeareâs Macbeth contains only two shots, of five and sixty-seven minutes respectively. For critic Jonathan Rosenbaum it marks a turning point in Tarrâs career:...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Mihály Víg

Direction Fatih Akin · Barbara Albert · Šarūnas Bartas · Andy Bausch

Cast Safia Aggoune · Abel Alves · Benzirar Baroudi · Ina-Marija Bartare

Plot The idea is simple: Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the respective countries that form the new European Community. Each director will give a personal...

Direction Béla Tarr

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Muhamed Osmanovic

Plot A young boy plays an accordion in a shopping mall. Béla Tarr picks up the camera one more time to shoot his very last scene. It is his anger about...

Direction Béla Tarr

Cast Miklós B. Székely · Michael Mehlmann · László Gálffi · László Kistamás

Direction Béla Tarr

Plot A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. Presumed lost until very recently.

Direction Béla Tarr

Plot Commissioned exclusively for the Wiener Festwochen, Béla Tarr's latest film project presents moving images of society's outsiders, the impoverished and oppressed, whose lives are contrasted with the opulent surroundings of...

Direction Alejandro Agresti · Gábor Altorjay · José Luis Guerín · Clemens Klopfenstein

Plot CITY LIFE, the monumental award winning episode film can best be characterized as a caleidoscopic panorama of the world. CITY LIFE is a visual anthology of twelve short stories by...