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5 unusual facts about Béla Tarr


Andrés Andreani

In 2011, Andreani met renowned Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at The Berlin Film Festival and later that year he traveled to Croatia to direct a short film under Tarr's supervision.

Fred Kelemen

The late Susan Sontag helped to promote Kelemen's work in the mid-1990s, comparing it to the likes of Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr and Sharunas Bartas.

László Krasznahorkai

Since 1985, the renowned director and the author's good friend Béla Tarr has made films almost exclusively based on Krasznahorkai's works, including Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies.

Several of his works, notably his novels Satantango (Sátántangó) (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája) (1989) have been turned into feature films by Hungarian film director Béla Tarr.

Night at the Crossroads

At a symposium on the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr held at Facets Multimedia on September 16, 2007, American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum mentioned that Tarr's then-new feature, The Man from London (also based on a novel by Georges Simenon), was influenced by Night at the Crossroads.



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Robert Tregenza

Besides shooting his own projects, Tregenza has also worked as a director of photography with other directors, including Alex Cox (on Three Businessmen) and Béla Tarr ( Werckmeister Harmonies.