Werckmeister Harmonies Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Werckmeister Harmonies.

• S
  Sandor Bese

• L
  Lars Rudolph

• P
  Peter Fitz

• H
  Hanna Schygulla

  Peter Von Kant

Crew Behind the Film

The Werckmeister Harmonies behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

Director

Béla Tarr
Ágnes Hranitzky

Screenwriters

—

Additional Information

All Trailers

Official Werckmeister Harmonies movie trailers and clips.

Production Details

What we know about the Werckmeister Harmonies movie production.

Questions

Looking for more information on Werckmeister Harmonies?

Across the Web

• Get Tickets & Showtimes
• Buy on Amazon
• More Info on IMDb