Top billed cast

1. 

   Lars Rudolph

   János Valuska

2. 

   Peter Fitz

   György Eszter

3. 

   Hanna Schygulla

   Tünde Eszter

4. 

   Alfréd Járai

   Lajos Harrer

5. 

   Gyula Pauer

   Mr. Hagelmayer

6. 

   János Derzsi

   Man In The Broad-Cloth Coat

7. 

   Mihály Kormos

   Factotum

8. 

   Putyi Horváth

   Porter

9. 

   Éva Almássy Albert

   Aunt Piri

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver

Written by CRCulver on 2018-09-01

Béla Tarr's 2000 film The Werckmeister Harmonies deals with troubling events in a small town in Hungarian's eastern plains. After an opening scene showing simpleton postman János demonstrating to a bar full of drunks how the Earth and moon rotate around the sun with the help of three of the old geezers, he does his rounds in the early morning. Posters put up advertise the arrival of a giant whale with special guest, the Prince. This traveling circus, however, fills the townspeople not with eager anticipation but with dread. Indeed, when the Prince does appear, all hell breaks loose.
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Status
Released

Original Language
Hungarian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$64,974.00

Keywords

• small town
• dancer
• based on novel or book
• darkness
• circus
• faith
• chaos
• whale
• philosophy
• allegory
• delusion
• hungary
• symbolism
• surrealism
• family relationships
• harmony
• black and white
• traveling circus
• threat
• woman director
• contemplative cinema