Release Date: April 16, 2024
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K+Blu ray) , $31.96 (Blu ray only)
DiabolikDVD- $34.99 (4K+Blu ray)
Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Writer: Béla Tarr
Starring: Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi, Mihály Kormos
This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K+Blu ray) , $31.96 (Blu ray only)
DiabolikDVD- $34.99 (4K+Blu ray)
Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Writer: Béla Tarr
Starring: Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi, Mihály Kormos
- Hungary
- 2000
- 145 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.66:1
- Hungarian
This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Béla Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Family Nest (1979), Tarr’s first feature film
- New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
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