

Journey on the Plain
1995-01-01 · 35 min · ★ 6.3
Revisits of locations on the Great Hungarian Plain - the puszta - that were used in Tarr's Sátántangó and Werckmeister harmóniák. Recitations of short lyric poems by Hungary's national poet Sándor Petofi.
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- Béla Tarr
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- Hungary
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- Released
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