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Werckmeister harmóniák

  • 2000
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 25min
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Werckmeister harmóniák (2000)
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
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Un inocente joven es testigo del estallido de violencia que se desata en un pequeño pueblo tras la llegada de un circo y sus peculiares atracciones: una ballena gigante y un hombre misterios... Leer todoUn inocente joven es testigo del estallido de violencia que se desata en un pequeño pueblo tras la llegada de un circo y sus peculiares atracciones: una ballena gigante y un hombre misterioso llamado "El Príncipe".Un inocente joven es testigo del estallido de violencia que se desata en un pequeño pueblo tras la llegada de un circo y sus peculiares atracciones: una ballena gigante y un hombre misterioso llamado "El Príncipe".

  • Dirección
    • Béla Tarr
    • Ágnes Hranitzky
  • Guionistas
    • László Krasznahorkai
    • Béla Tarr
    • Péter Dobai
  • Elenco
    • Lars Rudolph
    • Peter Fitz
    • Hanna Schygulla
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    7.9/10
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    • Dirección
      • Béla Tarr
      • Ágnes Hranitzky
    • Guionistas
      • László Krasznahorkai
      • Béla Tarr
      • Péter Dobai
    • Elenco
      • Lars Rudolph
      • Peter Fitz
      • Hanna Schygulla
    • 75Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 59Opiniones de los críticos
    • 93Metascore
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      • 5 premios ganados y 2 nominaciones en total

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    Lars Rudolph
    Lars Rudolph
    • János Valuska
    Peter Fitz
    • György Eszter
    Hanna Schygulla
    Hanna Schygulla
    • Tünde Eszter
    János Derzsi
    János Derzsi
    • Man In The Broad-Cloth Coat
    Djoko Rosic
    • Man In Western Boots
    • (as Djoko Rossich)
    Tamás Wichmann
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    Mihály Kormos
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    Putyi Horváth
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    • (as dr. Horváth Putyi)
    Enikö Börcsök
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    • Aunt Piri
    • (as Almási Albert Éva)
    Irén Szajki
    • Mrs. Harrer
    Alfréd Járai
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    Lajos Dobák
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    • Dirección
      • Béla Tarr
      • Ágnes Hranitzky
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      • László Krasznahorkai
      • Béla Tarr
      • Péter Dobai
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    10rooprect

    The Day the Circus Came Into Town...

    "Werckmeister Harmonies" is one of the most challenging films, with the greatest payoff, of any movie I've ever seen. A visually stunning adaptation of László Krasznahorkai's novel "The Melancholy of Resistance", this film tells the story of a sleepy Hungarian village over the course of about a day and a half when the circus rolls into town. With the circus come two main attractions: the body of a giant whale, and a 25-lb circus freak known only as "The Prince". These two attractions have profound, shocking effects on our hero Janos (excellently played by the boyish Lars Rudolph) and the inhabitants of the entire village, if not the entire country.

    The story presents a powerful allegory, every bit as biting and accusatory as Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", exposing the nature of human folly and the reason why society does, did, and always shall suck. I've found that the people who most enjoy this film are those who are moderately to extremely cynical; it shows us a very dark, nihilistic, nightmarish world similar to what we've seen in the classics "Brazil", Orson Welles' "The Trial" and basically every Herzog film ever made.

    But what makes this dark film enjoyable to watch is that doesn't just show us that humanity is flawed; it seeks to explain *why* humanity is flawed.

    I'll warn you up front, this is a very slow moving film with seemingly pointless, indulgent scenes of people silently walking down the street, eating a can of soup, or walking down the street in the opposite direction. Something to bear in mind is, just like in the epic "2001: A Space Odyssey" which has scenes of, say, an astronaut running on a giant hamster wheel for a painfully long time, these scenes are there to convey the monotony of existence. Even beyond that, these scenes are supposed to convey the comfort humans feel with tedious & ritualistic behavior. Order vs. chaos.

    The second thing that might help is the meaning of the title "Werckmeister Harmonies" which is the key to understanding the film's message. It's explained in a scene near the beginning, but I'll try to explain it in simpler terms here. In western music, we have a particular tuning system for all instruments. This system was developed by Andreas Werckmeister around the year 1700, and centuries later we still use it. The problem is, in a nutshell, it's wrong. Werckmeister's "well tempered" tuning is a compromise that allows instruments to sound good in a variety of keys, but it sacrifices the purity of sounding perfect in any 1 particular key. Pure, "natural" instruments such as the recorder flute sound great but they are limited to 1 key, 7 notes per octave. When western music took on complex instruments like the piano & guitar which play in every key, 12 notes per octave, a certain degree of fudging had to be made in their tuning. This is because in the natural world, the diverse frequencies of music don't add up to neatly repeating 12- note octaves as we want (for some reason we lose about 1/5 of a note every octave). Thus the music we know today, while not necessarily being unpleasant, is not as pure & simple as true "naturally tuned" instruments of yesteryear.

    How does this relate to the movie? The movie is about humans' need to quantify the unquantifiable, our need to create artificial order that suits us, even though it may be an aberration of nature. If you grasp this idea, along with the metaphor of the Werckmeister tuning, as well as the creative story that unfolds in the film, all augmented with intelligent cinematography, you will adore this film.

    Congratulations, you have successfully read through the driest & most boring IMDb review I have ever written. I have no doubt that you will enjoy solving the philosophical puzzle of the film "Werckmeister Harmonies".

    Similar, challenging films include: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1969), "Aguirre the Wrath of God" (1972), or the more recent Coen brothers' philosophical "A Serious Man", or the brain-blasting Kaufman dark comedy/mindbender "Synecdoche, NY" (2008).
    thecygnet

    A Work-of-art

    Put it simply, "Werckmeister harmóniák" is one of the most beautiful and haunting European film of the recent years, and maybe the best Hungarian film in decades. After the breakthrough of the acclaimed 7 hours long epic "Sátántangó" in 1994 it took 3 years to complete this masterpiece for Tarr Béla. "Sátántangó" and 'Werckmeister harmóniák" made Tarr one of the most acclaimed and adored directors of the contemporary film making. This mind-blowing story is told in only 37 shots (I counted it myself) some of them lasts for 5 or 6 minutes. Despite the small number of the shots, this film has one of the most effective editing of all time. Every edit is perfectly timed and has a meaning of its own. Kudos to the editor.

    The stark black-and-white camerawork is by Medvigy Gábor, and the melancholic music is composed by Víg Mihály. The most harrowing scene is the raid on the town hospital, the longest scene of the film, shot in complete silence. Frightening and senses-staggering, the picture of the naked old man burns into the soul. Highly recommended, a must-see for anyone who is interested in the recent history of Central-Eastern Europe and wants to understand it.
    10afox9119

    Cinematic Patience

    What is perhaps one of the best beginnings to a film helps lay the foundation for the rest of this film. Janos is brought to the center of the room being told that, "it is time." From here Janos begins a remedial science lesion on the cosmos. He begins by using a drunken bar patron as the sun. Then another as the earth. Finally, another as the moon. He explains the rotation of the three celestial bodies in what appears to be a drunken daze. However, Janos stop the rotation of the bar patrons and begins his monologue. Janos' language changes; the music resonates throughout the scene. Janos gives the patrons an allegorical tale of the eclipse; stating the sense of unrest that the animals and people experience as this sudden change shadows the earth. However, the chaos is only momentary. Order is soon restored. Shortly after his speech, Janos and the drunken patrons begin to dance at which point the barkeep kicks Janos out of the bar. In a rather ominous tone, Janos exclaims to the barkeep that "it is not over." I summarize the beginning of this spectacular film because the magnificent Bela Tarr has laid out everything we need to know in these short 11 minutes to understand his work. We are told that the story is going to be an allegory; an allegory of great chaos brought upon a population of the ignorant (The eclipse frightening the animals natural order of life). We are told that most everything in the film will be symbolic (The earth, sun, and moon acting as natural life with disorder). We are given the weather conditions and the dereliction of the town which further sets the tone of the film. Finally, we are given the pace of the film. Patience is needed. A film captured in a mere 39 shots in what feels archaic black and white (Again acting as a symbol for the Post WWII desolate town and its intoxicated population). The film follows our protagonist, Janos, as he meanders through his life playing an oxymoronic archetype of the wise fool. His small Hungarian town is awakened from their inexorable lassitude by the arrival of a circus attraction. This attraction is a giant stuffed whale and accompanying the whale is The Prince; a mysterious and shamanistic disturbance to the town's feeling of unrest and neglect. The Prince then capitalizes on the ignorance of the town, leading them to form a mob and storm the hospital. Janos is forced to play the unifier and bring the town out of the eclipse. Tarr has created literature in motion with this masterpiece. Harmonies is more of an experience than anything else. I watched this film maybe 10 years ago and am just now writing this review. The film resonates and challenges our ability to interpret. It is almost like we as viewers would wish to have a SparkNotes page for this film, so we could understand the symbolic nature of the whale, the prince, and so much more. Yet, we are given no interpretations; just as I will leave you with no further explanations. Just a recommendation to find this film and let patience truly be the greatest virtue of them all.
    8A_FORTY_SEVEN

    Challenging, profound, surreal and pretty hilarious.

    My Rating : 8/10

    Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker - known for philosophical arthouse cinema delivers a mystical mad tale (that will require immense patience, I think I did 10 household chores while watching this movie) that is original in content and absurd yet meaningful.

    37 long takes make up this oeuvre of world cinema and a black-and-white palette works best for such kind of art - colour would distract from the cinematic experience.

    Watch it and absorb the melancholic background music - images and sounds melt so beautifully in this arthouse venture.
    9gray4

    Bleak and gripping, a great European film

    This is as bleak a film as I have since for a long time. Seen mainly through the eyes of a 'holy fool', played by German Lars Rudolph, it may be allegorical, it may be a horror story or it might even be a distinctively Hungarian very black comedy.

    Bela Tarr's direction is stunning. The lighting is brilliant throughout, but none more so than when the circus comes to town in the middle of the night. The care and patience with which scenes are built greatly enhances the intensity of the most violent moments. The scene, for example, when a mob march down a long street before attacking a hospital matches the greatest moments of black-&-white silent cinema.

    The film retains a disturbing ambiguity throughout, right up to its powerful ending. What is the significance of the whale and its owners? And is Valuska (Lars Rudolph) as innocent as it seems on the surface? The result is a long (140 minutes), gripping and exciting film that leaves more questions than answers at the end.

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      The film is composed of 39 languidly paced tracking shots.
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      János Valuska: You are the sun. The sun doesn't move, this is what it does. You are the Earth. The Earth is here for a start, and then the Earth moves around the sun. And now, we'll have an explanation that simple folks like us can also understand, about immortality. All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign. And just imagine, in this infinite sonorous silence, everywhere is an impenetrable darkness. Here, we only experience general motion, and at first, we don't notice the events that we are witnessing. The brilliant light of the sun always sheds its heat and light on that side of the Earth which is just then turned towards it. And we stand here in it's brilliance. This is the moon. The moon revolves around the Earth. What is happening? We suddenly see that the disc of the moon, the disc of the moon, on the Sun's flaming sphere, makes an indentation, and this indentation, the dark shadow, grows bigger... and bigger. And as it covers more and more, slowly only a narrow crescent of the sun remains, a dazzling crescent. And at the next moment, the next moment - say that it's around one in the afternoon - a most dramatic turn of event occurs. At that moment the air suddenly turns cold. Can you feel it? The sky darkens, then goes all dark. The dogs howl, rabbits hunch down, the deer run in panic, run, stampede in fright. And in this awful, incomprehensible dusk, even the birds... the birds too are confused and go to roost. And then... Complete Silence. Everything that lives is still. Are the hills going to march off? Will heaven fall upon us? Will the Earth open under us? We don't know. We don't know, for a total eclipse has come upon us... But... but no need to fear. It's not over. For across the sun's glowing sphere, slowly, the Moon swims away. And the sun once again bursts forth, and to the Earth slowly there comes again light, and warmth again floods the Earth. Deep emotion pierces everyone. They have escaped the weight of darkness

      Mr. Hagelmayer: That's enough! Out of here, you tubs of beer!

      János Valuska: But Mr. Hagelmayer. It's still not over.

    • Conexiones
      Edited into Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità (2022)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Book 1 - Prelude No. 8 in E-flat minor (BWV 853)
      from The Well-Tempered Clavier

      composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

      The "grating" recording that György listens to in his study. He has retuned his piano to a pure tuning, with which the Bach prelude is incommensurable, since it relies on the tempered tuning system.

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 1 de febrero de 2001 (Hungría)
    • Países de origen
      • Hungría
      • Italia
      • Alemania
      • Francia
    • Idiomas
      • Húngaro
      • Eslovaco
    • También se conoce como
      • Werckmeister Harmonies
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Baja, Hungría(square)
    • Productoras
      • 13 Productions
      • ARTE
      • Fondazione Monte Cinema Verità
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      • FRF 10,000,000 (estimado)
    • Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
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    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 4,852
      • 7 oct 2001
    • Total a nivel mundial
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      • Black and White
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