Werckmeister Harmonies

Book adaptation/Drama, Hungary 2000

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This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...
141 min
SD
FSK 12
Audio language:
GermanHungarian
Subtitles:
English

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László Krasznahorkai (Novel)

Cast:

Lars Rudolph (János Valuska)

Peter Fitz (György Eszter)

Hanna Schygulla (Tünde Eszter)

Éva Almássy Albert (Aunt Piri)

Alfréd Járai (Lajos Harrer)

Original title:

Werckmeister harmóniák

Original language:

Hungarian

Format:

16:9 SD, B/W

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

GermanHungarian

Subtitles:

English