Béla Tarr’s hypnotic parable about the trials of human existence, filmed in thirty shots, is an apparently simple record of a week in the life of the farmer and pálinka distiller Ohlsdorfer. The minimalist drama opens with a brief text about the anecdote that Nietzsche went insane in 1889 in Turin after seeing a coachman brutally beat a horse. The introduction ends with the remark that we do not know what happened to the horse. The Turin Horse (2011) answers that question.

The distiller lives with his daughter in a wooden house on a windswept plain, with the horse in the stable. Father and daughter carry out their tasks, cook a potato, and listen to the storm. The well runs dry, the horse neither eats nor drinks, the daughter reads aloud a text in which the Bible is taken to task, and the days grow darker and darker: the last potato remains uncooked.

The Turin Horse is the un-creation of the world, with which the Hungarian Béla Tarr brings not only earthly life but also his own work as a filmmaker to an end.

– Filmtheater De Uitkijk

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The story takes place in the turbulent times of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Budapest’s siren is sounding, the city is slowly depopulating. We see a man who may or may not have committed murder. Many board the ship and the man with them. But even here they cannot hide from violence and madness.

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A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

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Synopsis: A talented but irresponsible violinist ruins his marriage with his drinking and antisocial behaviour.

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An innocent young man witnesses violence breaks out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions, a giant whale and a mysterious man named “The Prince”.

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Diplomafilm is a short film that Béla Tarr made to graduate from Art School, in 1981. It is the predecessor of The Prefab People, with the same plot and the same actors, but with some changes in the plot.

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A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

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“It’s the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

A heavy going realistic slice of life domestic drama that is filmed in black and white. It’s a followup to Béla Tarr’s other domestic strife tales Family Nest and The Outsider. This one keys in on marital strife. It’s about a struggling young couple’s confrontations and their own inability to freely communicate with each other. Tarr was evidently influenced by the works of Ranier Werner Fassbinder and John Cassavettes.

The film opens with factory worker hubby packing his bags and abruptly walking out on his hysterical wife. The young couple have two small children. In the next scene, the wife recalls events in their marriage such as a squabble celebrating their wedding anniversary over her complaints she does the housekeeping and takes care of the children and he offers no help and doesn’t communicate with her, and another spat at an outing to the pool when wifey is ticked he left her alone for over an hour to talk with his friend. At a dance, hubby dances with another woman and wifey jealously stares into space as the song played is “I’ve got a black baby.” The only time hubby is seen talking with his older school-aged son he gets mixed up trying to explain the difference between capitalism, socialism and communism. Hubby is offered a tour of service in Romania for two years to work at the same control room position he has and with double pay, but wifey refuses to be left alone. The film then returns to the opening scene and we now understand why hubby is leaving so abruptly. With hubby returning from abroad, we next see the couple purchasing a new washing machine in celebration of their reconciliation but returning from the store after the purchase looking as depressed as they usually do.

The unrelenting confrontations between a nagging wife and a distant hubby, where the filmmaker takes no sides in showing this downbeat marriage, gives one a picture of how the ordinary Budapest resident of the 1970s and early 1980s lived under communism. It’s not a pretty or entertaining picture, but it does scratch at the surface of things to show that not everything that is deep has to be complex. It’s the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.

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