Comprised of two uninterrupted shots, this little-seen version of Shakespeare’s play Tarr directed for Hungarian television gradually reveals itself to be a master class in the resourceful use of space and perspective. Macbeth preserves all the ambient tension of the original, reinventing the spare, atmospherically lit set with his newly mobile camera technique. The film marked a radical shift in the director‘s aesthetics.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 2 min.
- Country, year
- Hungary, 1982
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Hungarian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Béla Tarr
- Screenplay
- Béla Tarr
- Producers
- Magyar Televízió
- Cinematography
- Buda Gulyás, Ferenc Papp
- Music
- András Szabó
- Cast
- György Cserhalmi, Erzsébet Kútvölgyi, Ferenc Bencze, Imre Csuja, János Derzsi, István Dégi, Pál Hetényi, Tamás Jordán, Attila Kaszás, Gyula Maár, Đoko Rosić, József Ruszt, Géza Rácz, János Ács, Lajos Őze
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Director
Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr began making amateur films at the age of 16,. Tarr's 1979 feature debut Family Nest was a work of socialist realism clearly influenced by the work of John Cassavettes. In late eighties Tarr's visual sensibility move from raw close-ups to more abstract mediums and long shots, but also his philosophical sensibility shifted from grim realism to a more metaphysical outlook. His masterpiece Satantango took over seven years to realize.
