“…a magnum opus to end all magna opera, a dark, funny, apocalyptic allegory of the Hungarian psyche that stimulates, irritates, soothes, and startles with blinding strokes of genius in equal turn.”
– Derek Elley, Variety

Bela Tarr’s acclaimed European epic follows the members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism. This small band of villagers will do anything they can to leave the place, and, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to do exactly that. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone’s lives forever. 

Shot in stunning black-and-white and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Sátántangó unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Tarr’s enthralling vision and his portrayal of a rural Hungary best by boozy dance parties, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Not Rated. Director: Bela Tarr (Hungary/Germany/Switzerland 1994) 450 min

Sátántangó is being restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative by Arbelos Film in collaboration with The Hungarian Filmlab.