Werckmeister Harmonies 12A
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An innocent young man witnesses violence break out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions : a giant whale and a mysterious man named “The Prince”.
One of the major achievements of 21st century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance.
Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer & frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction.
In 39 of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
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- Director
- Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr
- Year
- 2000
- Duration
- 2 hours 19 minutes
- Language
- Hungarian with English subtitles
- Cast
- Hanna Schygulla, Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz
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