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The Turin Horse / A torinói ló
Director's bio
Béla Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky
Béla Tarr began his career in the late 1970s with socially realist films like Family Nest (1979), The Outsider (1981), and The Prefab People (1982). By the mid-1980s, his style shifted toward long takes, stark black-and-white imagery, and philosophical meditations on time and existence. His landmark works include Damnation (1988), Satantango (1994, a 7-hour epic), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), and The Turin Horse (2011), after which he announced his retirement from filmmaking. Tarr’s cinema is known for its slow, hypnotic rhythm, bleak landscapes, and existential themes. Ágnes Hranitzky, Tarr’s longtime partner and collaborator, is a film editor and co-director. She began working with him in the 1980s and became essential to shaping the rhythm and flow of his films. From Damnation onward, she was credited as co-director, reflecting her deep involvement in the creative process. Her editing style—favoring extended takes and fluid camera movement—helped define the immersive, meditative quality of Tarr’s cinema.
Synopsis
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse’s refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter. Bela Tar and Agnes Hranitzky, along with the Nobel Laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai have well-placed the well known story of Nietzsche’s collapse in Turin after rushing to embrace a mistreated horse.
Details of Cast
Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihaly Kormos
Details of Crew
DoP: Fred Kelemen Editor: Agnes Hranitzky Music: Mihaly Vig Sound: Xavier Lavorel
Producer Details
Gábor Téni
Writer Details
Bela Tarr, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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