Damnation
Kárhozat
Béla Tarr
© Hungarian Film Archive
Karrer has lived for years cut off from the world in a devastated landscape, spending his time contemplating the tippers that disappear into the distance and wandering under incessant rain. His only social ties are a bar, the Titanik, where he ends up every night, and Willarsky, the barman. He is attracted by a singer who performs there, and manages to seduce her.
With : Miklós Székely B., Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer, György Cserhalmi, Hédi Temessy
Screenplay : Béla Tarr, László Krasznahorkai
Image : Gábor Medvigy
Sound : Tamás Márkus
Editing : Ágnes Hranitzky
Music : Mihály Vig
Screenplay : Béla Tarr, László Krasznahorkai
Image : Gábor Medvigy
Sound : Tamás Márkus
Editing : Ágnes Hranitzky
Music : Mihály Vig
Production : Hungarian Film Institute
Distribution: Carlotta
Distribution: Carlotta
“It is less a story than a state of mind, a slow existential poem with a film noir atmosphere, rain, night, boredom, time spent hanging around at a bar, between shady deals and accordion blues. In superb black and white, Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr speaks of love and loneliness with sovereign melancholy” (Marie-Noëlle Tranchant; Le Figaro). Considered as the first part of a trilogy that continues with Sátántangó (Satan's Tango) and Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies), Kárhozat (Damnation) begins a new style that came from Béla Tarr's collaboration with writer László Krasznahorkai. The film was released in France for the first time in 2005, 18 years after it was made.