Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
BLEAK WEEK SERIES: CINEMA OF DESPAIR One of the major achievements of twenty-first-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 and 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 thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.DramaPT2H19M2026-06-06Lars Rudolph
Peter Fitz
Hanna Schygulla
Béla Tarr
Joachim von Vietinghoff
Paul Saadoun
Miklós Szita
Franz Goëss
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