László Krasznahorkaiis a Hungarian writer born in 1954. Krasznahorkai has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize and, in 1993, the German Bestenliste Prize for the best literary work of the year. His novel SATANT...
László Krasznahorkai (novel "Sátántangó") (screenplay) | Mihály Vig (story) | Péter Dobai (story) | Barna Mihók (story) | Béla Tarr (screenplay) Producers György Fehér | Joachim von Vietinghoff | Ruth Waldburger Composer Mihály Vig Cinematographer Gábor Medvigy Editor Ágne...
Its networkish structure and unreliable narration place it close to puzzle films; its close affinity with the Krasznahorkai novel, on which it is based, makes it a form of impure – that is – hybrid cinema; due to an accumulation of evil deeds, tragic and sensational eve...
What also distinguishes the novel (I confess to not having read any of his other work) is the length of his paragraphs. Quite simply, they are endless, or rather for Krasznahorka, a paragraph is a unit that runs from the beginning of a chapter to its end. Part I of his novel...
Sátántangó is the kind of film that so few filmmakers have the opportunity to make, and even fewer are given the chance to have them shown and cared for so widely.