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 Passion (original title in Hungarian: Szenvedély) is an adaptation, probably the best one (the uploader’s humble opinion) of James M. Cain’s crime novel: The Postman Always Rings Twice. You might not agree with this but I’m sure it can be matched to Visconti’s Obsession or to the Bob Rafelson’s work preserving the original title of the book.
The Hungarian director György Fehér was a prominent director for television so this might be the cause he didn’t receive a wider acclaim. After the 1989 fall of the communism in Hungary he also made two films for the big screen. The second and the last one in his ouvre is the one in this torrent.
He was a friend of Béla Tarr, they collaborated in many films, for example Fehér was one of the producers of Satantango, Tarr’s monumental feature. And you might also discover Tarr’s name at the endtitles of this movie.

The connection between the two directors is also depictable in artistic ways. If you watch this and you saw some of Tarr’s work the resemblances will become evident.

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt had written a film script entitled Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). Not happy with the ending he had devised for the first version, he decided to write a new one. This time he chose the novel format, completely changing the epilogue and the morals implied in the story as he had originally conceived it. In the first version, the events are resolved with sort of a conventional closure, with the main character proved successful, not leaving much space for any further reflection; in the subsequent novel (Das Versprechen, also known as The Pledge in English) the author exploits the story to explore the mechanics of detective fiction and the metaphysics of evil. In Das Versprechen, Dürrenmatt not only changed the ending of the story, he also moved the point of view on the events to another character.

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Introducing Szürkület to the audience present at its first screening at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, Hungarian filmmaker Benedek Fliegauf compared the visual experience to the listening of a whale song. As a matter of fact, Fehér’s mesmeric feature works a lot like white noise. The hypnotic use of the all-pervasive sound and the aged-looking black and white cinematography unquestionably reinforce this impression.

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György Fehér based his Szürkület on the film script by Dürrenmatt, not on the novel. Although Fehér followed the story quite faithfully, the impression is that of a total rewriting. Following the flowing of the events in the film without having read previously Dürrenmatt’s story is very difficult: Fehér didn’t choose to draw attention to the plot’s development at all. What the spectators are invited to examine is not a crime story, as they would be led to believe. The story is simply a frame or, rather, a leitmotif bringing together the various sequences. What Fehér composed is a visual suite, an entrancing trip through the dusky territories of the human soul.

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Every scene has the quality of a vision. Suspensions and pauses set the pace of every sequence, while the camera pans and halts, peeps through interstices, doors and windows, like possessed by the eye of a dreamer. After a while the spectator’s sight adjusts to rules of stimulation offered by the film, forgetting about expectations normally triggered by laws of causality. The eye of the camera silently explores the actors’ faces like they were landscapes and landscapes like they were actors. Lights, shadows, lines, shapes, faces, broken words: all are like elements in somebody’s dream the viewer is given the opportunity to observe from an uncommon position.

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It’s impossible to do justice to such an intense work of cinematic art in just a few lines, it’s impossible to describe the ineffable sensations it awakens. Watching Szürkület feels indeed like being inside somebody else’s dream. –

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1889.
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while travelling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse’s neck to protect it then collapsed to the ground. In less than one month, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would make him bed-ridden and speechless for the next eleven years until his death. But whatever did happen to the horse? This film, which is Tarr’s last, follows up this question in a fictionalized story of what occurred. The man who whipped the horse is a rural farmer who makes his living taking on carting jobs into the city with his horse-drawn cart. The horse is old and in very poor health, but does its best to obey its master’s commands. The farmer and his daughter must come to the understanding that it will be unable to go on sustaining their livelihoods. The dying of the horse is the foundation of this tragic tale.

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A former inspector on his last day with the department is called in to investigate a child murder. A suspect soon confesses to the crime, but knowing that the confession came only after the man was browbeaten in a relentless, 20-hour interrogation, the inspector’s keen police instincts tell him that the man is not the real murderer and that there is a serial killer at work, with the girl’s murder being related to other child murders that occurred in the area. However, he is alone in his assessment and the police close the case.

Having made a solemn promise to the parents of the murdered girl that he would find the culprit, the inspector abandons his previous plans and continues investigating the case as a private citizen. He is warned by a psychiatrist that the murderer he seeks might not exist, and thus he might drive himself mad with his obsession in finding the man…

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If you like to see what movies are really about (i.e. moving)you should see szurkulet. This highly original and intense film is an exercise in style ‘pur sang’. The story is loosely based on ‘es geschah am hellichten Tag’ by Friedrich Durrenmatt. But how the story is told is the most important part here. In a shadowish black and white twilight we see the story unfold in very (and I mean very) slow moving breathtaking camera movements over different scenes. This means that the whole movie exists out of less then 50 shots, without making unnessecary cuts. Orson Wells eat your heart out. Every scene tells the viewer another part of the puzzle and so the story gets you more and more in its gripping way of telling the story. For movie fans this is a must-see because this movie is the only movie I’ve seen which has stripped a picture to its bare essentials.

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Seeing this film was one of the most memorable cinematic experiences I have ever had. The extremely slow movement of the camera across stunning black and gray scenes was mesmerizing. Over time, it induced a kind of trance-like state that intensified the mysterious and sinister atmosphere of the film. The minimalist script was well served by the reflective and melancholy main character, a detective attempting to solve a tragic crime in a remote and desolate rural area. The overall effect was much like a strange, haunting dream with many emotional layers. I loved the film and hope I can see it again on a big screen one day!

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I saw this movie a long time ago, just after it’s release. Don’t remember much of the story anymore, except that it’s about a detective who’s looking for a child-kidnapper.

What I do remember is the beautiful camera-work and the very slow shots. Never seen anything like this. The very slow camera-movements and the extreme length of the shots make this film hypnotic. The landscapes are breathtaking.

A remarkable film…

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