Satantango by Béla Tarr

2004 · 435 minutes · motion picture · with Mihály Víg, Dr. Outyi Hoerváth, Erika Bók, Peter Berling, Miklós B. Székely, Lászlo Fe Lugossy, Èva Almási Albert, Alfréd Járay, Erzsébet Gaál, János Derzsi, Irén Szajki

Credits

Director	Béla Tarr
Script	Béla Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky und László Krasznahorkai nach dem Roman "Satanstango" von László Krasznahorkai
Cast	Mihály Víg, Dr. Outyi Hoerváth, Erika Bók, Peter Berling, Miklós B. Székely, Lászlo Fe Lugossy, Èva Almási Albert, Alfréd Járay, Erzsébet Gaál, János Derzsi, Irén Szajki
Photography	Gábor Medvigy
Sound	György Kovávs
Editing	Agnes Hranitzky
Music	Mihály Víg
Costumes	Gyula Pauer
Duration	435 min.
Format	35mm, s/w, 1:1.66
Versions	OVd
Producers	Ruth Waldburger
Production	Vega Film AG (Zürich), Mafilm M.I.T. (Budapest), Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion (Berlin)
Festivals/Prizese	Caligari-Preis Internationales Forum Berlin 1994
Swiss-german start 26 Mär 1995
Swiss french start 26 Mär 1995
Swiss italian start 26 Mär 1995

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Caligari-Preis Internationales Forum Berlin 1994

Press releases

Press comments
"Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I'd be glad to see it every year of the rest of my life." (Susan Sontag)

"His magnum opus... Tarr's imaginative universe it enirely his own." (The Guardian)

"Never the less than mesmerizing." (The New York Times)

"This stunning masterpiece proves that Hungarian cinema is alive and well and, in Tarr's hands, frighteningly lucid." (Film Society of the Lincoln Centre, New York)