On Friday, January 23, 2026, Cinema City Mammoth (Mammut) (1024 Budapest, Lövőház St. [Lövőház u.]) brings back one of Béla Tarr’s defining works, Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák). The film’s screenplay is based on Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai’s novel The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája), a bleak, hypnotic vision that powers Tarr’s legendary long takes and stark, wintry tableaux.
Post-screening talk
After the screening, film critic and cultural commentator András Réz (Réz András) hosts a film club conversation. Expect a deep dive into the film’s world and the director’s body of work: the austere aesthetics, the moral turbulence swirling through provincial streets, and the way Tarr translates Krasznahorkai’s relentless prose into extended, gliding scenes that feel like time itself unspooling.
Why it matters now
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) still hits with eerie clarity—its cosmic opening, its circling crowd scenes, its refusal to hurry. If you’ve never seen it in a theater, this is the way: darkness, silence, and a screen big enough to swallow the fog. (Cover image: Werckmeister Harmonies [Werckmeister harmóniák])
