Country
Hungary, Germany, Switserland
Year
1994
Language
Hungarian spoken, Dutch subtitles
Actors
Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, Lásló feLugossy
Director
Béla Tarr
Duration
439 min
Sátántangó (based on the novel by László Krasznahorkai) follows the inhabitants of a Hungarian village after the fall of communism.
It sounds unbelievable: watching a film for an entire working day without getting bored. Yet that is the effect of Béla Tarr's enchanting black-and-white images, which slowly draw the viewer into a narrative. Tarr set the film in a dingy Hungarian village, with the workers of a former collective farm. The communist utopia has collapsed, but none of the villagers are spreading their wings. They have money, but choose to live empty lives in the pub, or in the bed of Schmidt's adulterous wife. Then they hear that Irimiás has returned to the village. He had disappeared two years earlier and was thought to be dead. They are afraid that he will take the money in an attempt to maintain the community.
The film has two intermissions each lasting 20 minutes.
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