Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr's 7-hour black-and-white epic based on the novel by Laszlo Karsznahorkai took two years to film. The complex story follows a group of people living in a dilapidated village in post-Communist Hungary. Tarr examines their standstill lives through a series of episodes told from each person's point-of-view. Winner of the Caligari Film Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize Special Mention at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival.
One of Béla Tarr's most revered films. A grim, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama where the inhabitants try to relate to one another by revealing their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities. Autumn Almanac is one of the most important films in Tarr's oeuvre as it marks the turning point in his stylistic choices. Social realism was left behind and from Almanac onwards he has firmly embraced and pioneered the world of stylised, beautiful and captivating cinematography to tell his stories, something which he is now famous for.
In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. The first film in which Hungarian auteur B''la Tarr's fully realised his mesmerising and apocalyptic world view is an immaculately photographed and composed study of eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization.
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