Werckmeister Harmonies

When a menacing circus that has a rotting gigantic whale as its star attraction and an evil, faceless "prince" as its leader visits an isolated, bitterly cold Hungarian town in Béla Tarr's convoluted and strange black-and-white 2000 film, which is underscored with an eerie, haunting, and memorable soundtrack and adapted from the novel The Melancholy of Resistance, reminiscent of the works of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick, a postman (Lars Rudolph) witnesses the violence and chaos that envelopes the townsfolk (Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Irén Szajki, Alfréd Járai, Éva Almássy Albert, János Derzsi, Djoko Rosic, et al.).
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