A monumental film. With a run time of 7 hours and 20 minutes, this epic is #36 on the Sight & Sound / BFI’s Critic’s Poll of the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made.
1994, 439 minutes
Directed by Béla Tarr
Based on the book by László Krasznahorkai - winner of a Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 2025
One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” Sátántangó follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. 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.
