Béla Tarr: Celluloid wizard from Hungary

His Satantango is the film adaptation of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's dark but amazing novel by the same name. In the very first shot itself the director surprises you. On and on and on….Béla Tarr weaves, unveils, reveals magic in Satantango. Though a dark theme...

Béla Tarr’s cinemas portray people, deprived people mainly in rural Hungary and their struggles to lead a dignified life.

In an interview he says that he was interested in human emotions; the real humans and the whole stuff. He places himself in the "middle" of the two groups of the Budapest Movement-one which made documentary style movies and the other, the experimental group which set out to find a new film language.