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.
Since being fired, Karrer leads a withdrawn existence in a drab industrial city in rural Hungary; he spends his evenings in the Titanic Bar, where he stares, smitten, at the singer. It doesn’t get him anywhere. She’s already married. 4K restoration.
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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
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