Werckmeister Harmoniak (2000)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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08.01.08
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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. 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 neighboring settlings, 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. Aambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...
Title: Werckmeister Harmoniak
Release Date: October 10, 2001
Runtime: 145 mins
Genre: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Languages: Hungarian, Slovak
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Stereo
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Brimstone Pit Rating: 9.1 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With W
MPAA Rating: 15
Director(s):
Bela Tarr
Agnes Hranitzky
Cast:
Lars Rudolph ...Janos Valuska
Peter Fitz ...Gyorgy Eszter
Hanna Schygulla ...Tunde Eszter
Janos Derzsi ...Man In The Broad-Cloth Coat
Djoko Rosic ...Man In Western Boots (as Djoko Rossich)
Tamas Wichmann ...Man In The Sailor-Cap
Ferenc Kallai ...Director
Mihaly Kormos ...Factotum
Putyi Horvath ...Porter (as dr. Horvath Putyi)
Eniko Borcsok ...
Eva Almassy Albert ...Aunt Piri (as Almasi Albert Eva)
Iren Szajki ...Mrs. Harrer
Alfred Jarai ...Lajos Harrer
Gyorgy Barko ...Mr. Nadaban
Lajos Dobak ...Mr. Volent
Andras Fekete ...Mr. Argyelan
Gyuri Dosa Kiss ...
Jozsi Mihalyfi ...
Peter Dobai ...Chief Constable
Geza Balkay ...
Kati Lazar ...Sorter
Peter Toth ...
Laszlo feLugossy ...Housepainter
Gyula Pauer ...Mr. Hagelmayer
Barna Mihok ...Coachman
Viktor Lois ...Loader
Bela Mariass ...Mr. Madai
Matyas Drafi ...Man In The Fur-Cap
Jozsef Ropog ...The Man Beside Him
Sandor Bese ...The Prince
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
Ralph E. Cotta
Franz Goess
Paul Saadoun
Miklos Szita
Bela Tarr
Joachim von Vietinghoff
Writer(s):
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Bela Tarr
Peter Dobai
Gyuri Dosa Kiss
Gyorgy Feher
Composer(s):
Mihaly Vig
Movie Quote(s):
- János Valuska: You are the sun. The sun doesn't move, this is what it does. You are the Earth. The Earth is here for a start, and then the Earth moves around the sun. And now, we'll have an explanation that simple folks like us can also understand, about immortality. All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign. And just imagine, in this infinite sonorous silence, everywhere is an impenetrable darkness. Here, we only experience general motion, and at first, we don't notice the events that we are witnessing. The brilliant light of the sun always sheds its heat and light on that side of the Earth which is just then turned towards it. And we stand here in it's brilliance. This is the moon. The moon revolves around the Earth. What is happening? We suddenly see that the disc of the moon, the disc of the moon, on the Sun's flaming sphere, makes an indentation, and this indentation, the dark shadow, grows bigger... and bigger. And as it covers more and more, slowly only a narrow crescent of the sun remains, a dazzling crescent. And at the next moment, the next moment - say that it's around one in the afternoon - a most dramatic turn of event occurs. At that moment the air suddenly turns cold. Can you feel it? The sky darkens, then goes all dark. The dogs howl, rabbits hunch down, the deer run in panic, run, stampede in fright. And in this awful, incomprehensible dusk, even the birds... the birds too are confused and go to roost. And then... Complete Silence. Everything that lives is still. Are the hills going to march off? Will heaven fall upon us? Will the Earth open under us? We don't know. We don't know, for a total eclipse has come upon us... But... but no need to fear. It's not over. For across the sun's glowing sphere, slowly, the Moon swims away. And the sun once again bursts forth, and to the Earth slowly there comes again light, and warmth again floods the Earth. Deep emotion pierces everyone. They have escaped the weight of darkness Mr. Hagelmayer: That's enough! Out of here, you tubs of beer! János Valuska: But Mr. Hagelmayer. It's still not over.
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Movie Trivia:
- Director Béla Tarr spent almost a year finding the right square for some scenes in the film.
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During the shooting the temperature dropped to -15 degrees Celsius.
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Ildikó Pécsi was set to play a role.
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The title references the German musician Andreas Werckmeister (1645-1706).
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Keywords:
Whale, Small Town, Circus, Piano, Symbolism ...[more]
Keywords All:
Fire, Allegory, Dancing, Magical Realism, Tank, Hospital, Earth, Musician, Bar, Truck, Surrealism, Tragedy, Railroad Track, Raid, Newspaper, Hyperactive Child, Madness, Gun, Looting, Traveling Circus, Long Take, Isolation, Coal, Riot, Sun, Mob, Helicopter, Based On Novel
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Rating: 9.1 out of 10.0 - 67 votes cast total
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