Container of (work): Werckmeister harmóniák (Motion pictures). Container of (work): Werckmeister harmóniák (Motion pictures). German.
Notes:
Title from web page. Based on the novel by László Krasznahorkai. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Wide screen. Special features: Bonus film, Family nest (1979), featurette. Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla.
Summary:
The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus completed 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 that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
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