| Description |
2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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monaural rdacpc |
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NTSC rdabs |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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region 1 rdare |
| System Details |
DVD, wide screen, NTSC, region 1, ; monaural. |
| Language |
In Hungarian with English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla. |
| Summary |
The 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 completed with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince 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 codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty. |
| Subject |
Circus -- Hungary -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Government, Resistance to -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Hungary -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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DVD-video discs.
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Hungarian language materials.
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Foreign films, Hungarian.
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| Added Author |
Saadoun, Paul, film producer.
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Vietinghoff, Joachim von, film producer.
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Goëss, Franz, film producer.
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Szita, Miklós, film producer.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Krasznahorkai, László.
Ellenállás melankóliája.
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Tarr, Béla, 1955- film director.
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Rudolph, Lars, 1966- actor.
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Fitz, Peter, 1931-2013, actor.
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Schygulla, Hanna, 1943- actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515295116 |
| Music No. |
CC3547DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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