This ambitious, black-and-white, seven-hour Hungarian film from idiosyncratic auteur Bela Tarr follows the inhabitants of a run-down Hungarian village still reeling from the collapse of Communism. Based on Laszlo Karsznahorkai's novel and filmed over a period of two years, the critically acclaimed epic takes the time to explore each character's unique point of view.

DVD Features:

4-Disc Set
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital - Hungarian
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Shorts - The Restoration
Films - 1. MACBETH
2. JOURNEY ON THE PLAIN
3. PROLOGUE
Additional Product:
Collectible - Facets Cine-Notes Booklet
Additional Product:
Bonus Disc

Distributor Notes: Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr's 7-hour, black-and-white epic based on the novel by Laszlo Karsznahorkai took two years to film. The complex story follows a group of people living in a dilapidated village in post-communist Hungary. Tarr examines their standstill lives through a series of episodes told from each person's point-of-view. Susan Sontag said, "Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I'd be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life." Winner of the Caligari Film Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize Special Mention at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival.

Source: Facets Multi-Media Inc

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5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his story of revenge and social collapse bends time, space and the viewer's consciousness like few others."
"[A] kind of holy grail for cinephiles....What makes it an astonishing work is its immanent sense of the great Hungarian plain and the absurd drudgery of rural life
"[The film] garnered lavish praise from Susan Sontag and inspired Gus Van Sant's return to low-budget experimental fare..."