Fenster zum Hof- Werckmeister Harmóniák Béla Tarr

The program with wishes from the neighborhood continues with WERCKMEISTER HARMÓNIÁK, presented as a 35 mm print in the spirit of the director. The director Béla Tarr, who died in January of this year, was closely associated with Arsenal: Many of his films were screened in the Forum of the Berlinale and his films were also often present in the Arsenal program. WERCKMEISTER HARMÓNIÁK, based on a literary model by László Krasznahorkai, is set in winter in a provincial Hungarian town where a strange world violently breaks in and threatens to overturn the social order. A traveling circus attracts the interest of the inhabitants, hundreds of whom line up to see the main attraction, a stuffed whale. Their wait turns into an inexplicable riot. A dark mood hangs over Béla Tarr's expressive black-and-white film, a doomsday vision of the struggle between barbarism and civilization in images of great intensity.