The Turin Horse
Béla Tarr / HU, FR, CH, DE, 2011 / 146 min.
Béla Tarr took the anecdote about Nietzsche’s mental breakdown as the starting point for his tale of what may well be an announcement of the Apocalypse. The Turin Horse (35mm) screens with Szürkület (on June 12), by Tarr’s fellow Hungarian György Feher.
The film’s mystifying title comes from a famous anecdote about Nietzsche’s collapse. When the philosopher left his hotel in Turin on the morning of 3 January 1889 and saw a coachman beating his horse, he embraced the exhausted animal and burst into tears. Marking the start of an incurable descent into madness – but whatever happened to the horse? Tarr wondered.
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Director
Béla Tarr
Production year
2011
Country
HU, FR, CH, DE
Original title
Le cheval de Turin
Length
146 min.
Language
Hungarian, German
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
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