Damnation
Béla Tarr / HU, 1988 / 121 min.
Béla Tarr made an elusive, melancholy film about the approaching end of Communism. Grey shades and shadows give this existential film noir parable on desperation an almost abstract beauty amidst rain, mud and crying dogs. Based on a screenplay by László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025. In Memoriam Béla Tarr.
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Director
Béla Tarr
Production year
1988
Country
HU
Original title
Kárhozat
Length
121 min.
Language
Hungarian
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Eye Classics
Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.
In memoriam Béla Tarr
The Hungarian director Béla Tarr died on 6 January at the age of 70. This extraordinary filmmaker shaped his melancholic, pessimistic worldview in highly stylised black-and-white narratives, carried by long takes, earning him the title of master of the hypnotic long shot. In its cinemas, Eye is screening Damnation, The Turin Horse and Sátántangó. Five of his masterpieces can also be watched on Eye Film Player, including the trilogy Damnation (1988), Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmóniák (2000). In 2017, Eye presented the exhibition Béla Tarr – Till the End of the World.
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