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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) English · DVD

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This 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—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 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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Actor	Lars Rudolph, Janos Derzsi, Djocko Rossitch, Hanna Schygulla, Ferenc Kállai, Tamás Wichmann, Peter Fitz
Director	Béla Tarr

Content	DVD
Age rating	from age 14
Publication date	28.02.2006
Genre	Drama

EAN	0736899091026
Length	145 minutes
Audio	Hungarian (PCM Stereo)
Subtitles	English
Screen	16/9
Year of production	2000
Original title	Werckmeister harmóniák (Hungarian)
Region code	0
Version	US Version

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Written on 30. November 2005 by David Pinter.

This customer review refers to a alternative version.

Ein wunderschöner SW Film. Für Filmemacher und cinephile empfehle ich, beim Visionieren dieses Films eine Ungarisch sprechende Person zur Übersetzung bei zu ziehen, weil die wirkliche Tiefe des Films nur in der Originalsprache verstanden werden kann. Der Film hat einen Charme, der kaum übersetzt werden kann. Grossartige Kameraführung und eindrückliche Bilder. Nicht so gut geglückt ist die Synchronisierung (sichtbare Verzögerungen), aber die Filmmusik macht das wett..

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