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Damnation

Name: Damnation
Director: Béla Tarr
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1988
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Székely B. Miklós, György Cserhalmi, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer, Hédi Temessy

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...

1988 · Directed by Béla Tarr · 116 min · Drama · Crime · 9 frames

Crew

Written by: László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr
Cinematography: Gábor Medvigy, József Mezö
Edited by: Ágnes Hranitzky
Music: Mihály Víg
Produced by: József Marx

Cast

Székely B. Miklós as Karrer
György Cserhalmi as Sebestyén
Vali Kerekes as The Singer
Gyula Pauer as Willarsky
Hédi Temessy as Cloakroom Attendant
Gábor Balogh
János Balogh
Péter Breznyik Berg
Imre Chmelik
János Gémes

Production

Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Studios: Mokép, Hungarian Film Institute, Hungarian Television
Themes: dancing, rain, fog, surreal, surrealism, umbrella, magic realism, existentialism, mono

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