Picture to download Prizes: 2001 - Berlin International Film Festival - Forum of New Cinema Berliner Zeitung’s Reader’s Prize to the Best Film of Forum 2001 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Main Prize, Gene Moskowitz Prize 2001 - Sofia International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize 2000 - Brussels L’Age d’Or Prix Cinédécouvertes

Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) (2000, feature, 35mm, black/white, 145 min., 1:1,66, DolbySR) Director: Béla Tarr Screenplay: Béla Tarr, László Krasznahorkai Based on: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Director of photography: Erwin Lanzensberger, Miklós Gurbán, Emil Novák, Patrick de Ranter, Jörg Widmer, Gábor Medvigy, Rob Tregenza Editor: Ágnes Hranitzky Music: Mihály Víg Sound: György Kovács Costumes: János Breckl Production manager: Gábor Koncz, Lajos Gerhardt, Gábor Téni Producer: Franz Goëss, Joachim Von Vietinghoff, Miklós Szita, Paul Saadoun Production company: 13 Production / FR, Goëss Film (Budapest), Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion / DE Cast: Djoko Rosić, Ferenc Kállai, János Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla, Peter Fitz, Lars Rudolph, Tamás Wichmann This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather � without snow. It us twenty degrees below zero. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see � as the outcome of their wait � the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighbouring settlings, from different holes of the Plain, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs � the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost � disturbs the order of the small town. The human connections are overturning, the ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation, while the people who are condemned anyway to passivity fall into an even deeper uncertainty. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness and is lying low behind the whale. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose the destroying emotions. The apocalypse that sweeps away everything spares nothing. I does not spare the outsiders wrapped up in scientificness, does not spare the teenage enthusiasts, the people who have philistine fears for ease, the family � nothing that the European culture preserved as from of attitude in the last centuries. The burst of instinctive rage helps the victory of the petty lust for power, that finally holds the rage down again, as the terrible end of an awful story, justifying the sarcastic game of nature � the whale and the cold without snow, which are unimaginable for Hungarian people. Made from 1996 to 2000. Festivals: 2007 - Prague FEBIOFEST - Béla Tarr Retrospective 2006 - Sarajevo Film Festival - Tribute to Béla Tarr 2005 - Huesca Film Festival - Béla Tarr Retrospective 2005 - Seville Film Festival - Béla Tarr Retrospective 2004 - Setúbal FESTROIA  International Film Festival 2004 - Sitges International Film Festival 2004 - Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival - Béla Tarr Retrospective 2004 - Wroclaw New Horizons International Film Festival - Retrospective 2003 - Cluj-Napoca Cinema Paradiso Film Festival 2002 - Barcelona POSIBLE 2002 - Bergamo Film Meeting 2002 - Cluj-Napoca Transilvania 2002 - Perugia International Film Festival 2002 - Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Béla Tarr Retrospective 2001 - Auckland International Film Festival 2001 - Berlin International Film Festival - Forum of New Cinema 2001 - Bratislava International Film Festival 2001 - Brisbane International Film Festival 2001 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition) 2001 - Freistadt "Der Neue Heimatfilm" Festival 2001 - Innsbruck International Film Festival 2001 - Istanbul International Film Festival 2001 - Jeonju International Film Festival 2001 - Jerusalem International Film Festival 2001 - Ljubljana International Film Festival 2001 - Rotterdam International Film Festival 2001 - San Francisco International Film Festival 2001 - Săo Paulo International Film Festival 2001 - Sodankylä Midnight Sun Film Festival 2001 - Sofia International Film Festival 2001 - Warsaw International Film Festival 2001 - Wellington Film Festival 2001 - Wiesbaden GoEast Film Festival (in competition) 2000 - Brussels L’Age d’Or (in competition) 2000 - Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2000 - Chicago International Film Festival 2000 - Cork Film Festival 2000 - Edinburgh International Film Festival 2000 - Mumbai International Film Festival 2000 - Split Film Festival 2000 - Toronto International Film Festival 2000 - Vancouver International Film Festival