Béla Tarr Collection - 5-DVD Box Set ( Kárhozat / Sátántangó / Panelkapcsolat ) ( Damnation / Satantango / The Prefab People )

Béla Tarr Collection - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kárhozat / Sátántangó / Panelkapcsolat
Alternate Title: Damnation / Satantango / The Prefab People
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
651 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1982 - 1994 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Béla Tarr

Written By:
László Krasznahorkai
Béla Tarr
Mihály Vig

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
Béla Wahrtschek
István Zsugán
János Újvári
Mihály Vig ..... Irimiás
Putyi Horváth ..... Petrina
László feLugossy ..... Schmidt
Éva Almássy Albert ..... Schmidtné
János Derzsi ..... Kráner
Irén Szajki ..... Kránerné
Alfréd Járai ..... Halics
Miklós Székely B. ..... Futaki
Erzsébet Gaál ..... Halicsné
György Barkó ..... Iskolaigazgató
Zoltán Kamondi ..... Kocsmáros
Barna Mihók ..... Kerekes
Péter Dobai ..... Százados
András Bodnár ..... Horgos Sanyi
Erika Bók ..... Estike
Judit Pogány ..... Feleség
Róbert Koltai ..... Férj
Kyri Ambrus ..... énekesnõ
Jánosné Bráda ..... Gyerek
János Fábián ..... Tanárnõ
Péter Gellért ..... Mûvezetõ
Tivadar Gál
Barna Mihók
Adrián Nagy
Gábor P. Koltai
László Sinkó
Józsefné Sothó
Istvánné Szabó
Tibor Tóth
András Udvarhelyi
László Varga
László Vágyi

Synopsis:

Damnation (1988)
Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...
Satantango (1994)
A seven-hour epic, focusing on the intrigues, betrayals, boozy revels, and readjustments made by several members of a farming collective after their squalid but relatively secure form of life collapses.
The Prefab People (1982)
The last and often referred to as the best of the early films by the great Béla Tarr, this is a poignant tale of a young couple struggling to hold together a failing marriage in the face of poverty.

Damnation (1988)
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.
Satantango (1994)
This European epic is seven hours long. It is adapted from a novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai and reflects the obsession of director Bela Tarr who began the film seven years ago. It took two full years to film this opus. The story is presented through a series of chapters of varying lengths with titles like 'The News That They are Coming,' 'We, the Resurrected,' 'The Freeze,' 'Only Problems and Work.' and finally 'The Circle Is Completed.' The enormously complex saga is centered in an abandoned farm machinery plant upon a Hungarian plain. There live a small band of hobos including three couples, a doctor with a drinking problem. All of them want to leave and they will do anything they can to do it. A set series of events occurs, but the story presents those events from each of the different character's viewpoints. The film ends on an ironic note.
The Prefab People (1982)
Suffering from economic hardships that slowly rip apart their once harmonious relationship, a married couple (Judit Pogany and Robert Koltai) struggle to keep everything together - yet the husband becomes increasingly passive and the wife increasingly strident as time goes by. Their difficulties are created and portrayed by the spontaneous reactions of the actors themselves, following outlines of the story rather than the memorized lines of a scripted scenario. With minimal editing and direct sound that includes the noise of the camera, the black-and-white realism is rather bleak, reflecting the current state of their once caring relationship.

Damnation (1988)
Damnation tells the story of Karrer (Miklós B. Székely), a depressed man in love with a married torch singer (Vali Kerekes) from a local bar, the Titanik. The singer broke off their affair, because she dreams of becoming famous. Karrer is offered smuggling work by Willarsky (Gyula Pauer), the bartender at the Titanik. Karrer offers the job to the singer's husband, Sebestyén (György Cserhalmi). This gets him out of the way, but things don't go as Karrer plans. Betrayals follow. Karrer despairs.
Satantango (1994)
In a small dilapidated village in 1990s Hungary, life has come to a virtual standstill. The autumn rains have started. The villagers expect to receive a large cash payment that evening, and then plan to leave. Some want to abscond earlier with more than their fair share of the money. However they hear that the smooth talking Irimias, whom they thought had died, is coming back. They are apprehensive that he will take all their money in one of his grandiose schemes to keep the community going.
The Prefab People (1982)
Tarr's portrait of a young, working-class married couple brings us close to the raw emotions brought forth as the mysteries of love unravel. The chronicle of their love's rise and fall is told in moving flashback, working back from the day that bearish Férj (Róbert Koltai) packs up and leaves his fed-up wife Feleség (Judit Pogány). Set in the 'prefab' apartment blocks of government housing, Tarr's story is at once a clear-eyed look at a relationship and a no-nonsense sketch of a place and time.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 17 March, 2014.