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Bela Tarr - what members say

Werckmeister Harmonies review by from Merseyside

Difficult but interesting 16 March 2005
...Bela Tarr's unique and disquieting film is quite a viewing experience; often a single shot is held for what seems like an eternity, enough for the viewer to register bew... Read customer review

Satantango review by A customer from North Yorkshire, England

What we are like. 30 November 2006
..., a film of brilliance. I'm amazed to find that the writing that lies behind Bela Tarr's films is still, after 20 years, hardly published in English. ... Read customer review

The Man From London review by SteveMason from Nottingham

Not for everyone, but... 6 August 2009
...It's difficult to recommend the films of Bela Tarr because, as they are unique, there are few reference points. Gus Van Sant appropriated his style in Elephant and Last ... Read customer review

Bela Tarr - filmography

The Turin Horse (2011)
Starring: Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Erika Bók
Director: Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky
Certificate:
1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while travelling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse's neck to protect it then collapsed to the ground. In less than one month, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would make ..read more »

80% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

The Man From London on DVD (2008)
Starring: Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Erika Bók
Director: Bela Tarr
Certificate:
A man whose lonely life at the edge of the sea has become as predictable as the tide witnesses a murder that sends him on an existential journey the likes of which he could never have anticipated in director Béla Tarr's philosophical drama. Maloin had reached a point in life where he was content to ..read more »

43% from 925 members

Werckmeister Harmonies on DVD (2000)
Starring: Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla
Director: Bela Tarr
Certificate:
Werckmeister Harmonies is 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 - without snow. It is twenty degrees below zero. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ..read more »

70% from 877 members

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Starring: Lars Rudolph, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla
Director: Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky
Certificate:
Werckmeister Harmonies is 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 - without snow. It is twenty degrees below zero. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ..read more »

85% from 9 members
Currently unavailable

Satantango (3 discs) on DVD (1994)
Starring: Peter Berling, Janos Derzsi, Mihaly Vig
Director: Bela Tarr
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A small backwater village is the setting for this colossal Hungarian saga. Clocking in at seven hours, Bela Tarr’s film details the plight of the village folk as they prepare to leave. Believing that there are monies owed to them, the villagers wait for a payout, but some of their number and ..read more »

74% from 406 members

Damnation on DVD (1988)
Starring: Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla
Director: Bela Tarr
Certificate:
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 of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her ..read more »

67% from 417 members

Almanac Of Fall (1984)
Starring: Miklos Szekely, Hedi Temessy, Erika Bodnar
Director: Bela Tarr
Certificate:
A group of people living in a large, yet claustrophopic, apartment battle for the favours of an aging well-to-do woman named Heidi and end up betraying each other.

68% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

Panelkapcsolat (1982)
Starring: Robert Koltai, Judit Pogany
Director: Bela Tarr
Certificate:
Shot in a gritty, documentary style, this is a relentlessly realistic portrait of a young working-class couple who suffer the everyday stresses of marriage.

82% from 8 members
Currently unavailable

Bela Tarr facts

5 most recent films

The Turin Horse - 4.0 stars
The Man From London - 2.0 stars
Werckmeister Harmonies - 3.5 stars
Werckmeister Harmonies - 4.5 stars
Satantango - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Satantango - 3.5 stars
Werckmeister Harmonies - 3.5 stars
Damnation - 3.5 stars
The Man From London - 2.0 stars
Werckmeister Harmonies - 4.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Almanac Of Fall - 3.5 stars
Panelkapcsolat - 4.0 stars
The Turin Horse - 4.0 stars
Werckmeister Harmonies - 4.5 stars
The Man From London - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Janos Derzsi - 7 times - show films
Hanna Schygulla - 3 times - show films
Erika Bók - 3 times - show films
Peter Fitz - 3 times - show films
Miklos Szekely - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Agnes Hranitzky - 2 times - show films