Damnation ( Kárhozat )

Damnation (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kárhozat
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Béla Tarr

Written By:
Béla Tarr
László Krasznahorkai

Actors:
Gábor Balogh ..... Sebestyén
János Balogh ..... The Singer
Péter Breznyik Berg ..... Willarsky
Imre Chmelik ..... Karrer
György Cserhalmi ..... Cloakroom Attendant
Zoltán Csorba
József Dénes
Zoltán Farkas
Gáspár Ferdinándy
Jenõ Gaál
János Gémes
Károly Hunyadi
Ágnes Kamondy
Sándor Kaszab
Vali Kerekes
Gyula Pauer
Zoltán Szegvári
Miklós Székely B.
Hédi Temessy
Tibor Trencsényi
János Újvári
Béla Wahrtschek
István Zsugán

Synopsis:

Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr began his career making social realist domestic dramas, similar to the work of John Cassavettes. The feature before Damnation, Almanac of Fall, showed Tarr moving toward a more visually stylized form of filmmaking. With Damnation, the first of his collaborations with novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Tarr adopts a formally rigorous style, featuring long takes and slow tracking shots of the bleak landscape that surrounds the characters. Shot in black-and-white, Damnation tells the story of Karrer (Miklos B. Szekely), a depressed man in love with a married woman (Vali Kerekes) who sings at the local bar, Titanik. The singer has broken off their affair, despite her profession of love for him. She wants to improve her life. She dreams of becoming famous, but she herself embodies all of Karrer's hopes and dreams. Karrer is offered smuggling work by Willarsky (Gyula Pauer), the bartender at Titanik. Despite his lack of other prospects, Karrer tries to haggle with Willarsky over his take. Karrer eventually decides to offer the job to the singer's husband, Sebastyen (Gyorgy Cserhalmi), who has fallen on hard times. This gets the husband out of the way for a while, but things don't go as Karrer plans with the singer. There's a big, drunken dance, which everyone in town attends (though one demented soul prefers to dance maniacally in the rain outside). Afterwards, one betrayal falls upon another, leaving Karrer in despair, alienated from all of humanity. This film laid the groundwork for Tarr's next collaboration with Krasznahorkai, Satantango, a seven-hour film which they spent years developing, and which many consider Tarr's masterpiece.

Showing the markings of the imminent end of Communism, a group of four people plot and scheme against each other.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 March, 2007.

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