Composer:
Mihály VígCast:
Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi, Djoko Rossich, Tamás Wichmann, Ferenc Kállai, Mihály Kormos, Putyi Horváth, Enikő Börcsök (more)VOD (1)
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This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus - complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince (Lars Rudolph) - arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and co-director-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Lars Rudolph
West Germany
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
No Place to Go (2000)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Peter Fitz
German Empire
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Goodbye, Children (1987)
The Wannsee Conference (1984) (TV movie)
Hanna Schygulla
German Empire
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
János Derzsi
Hungary
Best movies:
Dog's Night Song (1983)
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Satantango (1994)
Djoko Rossich
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Time of Violence (1988)
Przeklete oko proroka (1984)
Tamás Wichmann
Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
The Enchanted Dollars (1986)
Ferenc Kállai
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
The Witness (1969)
6:3 (1999)
Mihály Kormos
Best movies:
Satantango (1994)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
The Turin Horse (2011)
Putyi Horváth
Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Glamour (2000)
Enikő Börcsök
Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Glass Tiger (2001)
The Notebook (2013)
Éva Almássy Albert
Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Bald-Dog-Rock (1981)
Diary for My Children (1984)
Irén Szajki
Best movies:
Satantango (1994)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Family Nest (1979)
Alfréd Járai
Best movies:
Satantango (1994)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
The Man from London (2007)
György Barkó
Romania
Best movies:
Satantango (1994)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Witman Boys (1997)
Lajos Dobák
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
András Fekete
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Dog's Night Song (1983)
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Gyuri Dósa Kiss
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Józsi Mihályfi
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Péter Dobai
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Satantango (1994)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Géza Balkay
Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Citizen X (1995) (TV movie)
Taxidermia (2006)