Films byTexts by Béla Tarr
FILM
Szabadgyalog
The Outsider
Béla Tarr, 1981, 122’

In an industrial town in Hungary, András, a music-loving young nurse, is fired for alcoholism. It's another failure in his life. As he wanders through the city, András drifts through his relationships, both social and romantic.

 

FILM
Sátántangó
Béla Tarr, 1994, 420’

Based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, Sátántangó follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village.

FILM
Werckmeister harmóniák
Werckmeister’s Harmonies
Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000, 145’

“You are the sun. The sun doesn’t move, this is what it does. You are the Earth. The Earth is here for a start, and then the Earth moves around the sun. And now, we’ll have an explanation that simple folks like us can also understand, about immortality.