Based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, Sátántangó follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone’s lives forever.

Cast & Crew
Producers: György Fehér, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Ruth Waldburger
Director: Béla Tarr
Script: László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr
Director of Photography: Gabor Medvigy
Production Design: Sándor Kállay
Music: Mihály Vig
Sound: György Kovács
Editing: Agnes Hranitzky
Cast: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth
Production: Mozgókép Innovációs Társulás és Alapítvány

Awards
Caligari Film Award, Berlinale, 1994; Prix de l'Age d'Or, Brussels, Belgium, 1994; Experimental Film Award, National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 1995

Béla Tarr (1955 - 2026)
He began his career at sixteen as an amateur filmmaker. Later he worked at Balázs Béla Stúdió, the most important workshop of Hungarian experimental film, where he made his feature directorial debut. Tarr was a student of the Academy of Theater and Film in Budapest between 1977 and 1981. In 1981, he was one of the founders of Társulás Filmstúdió, since its closure in 1985 he has worked as an independent filmmaker. In 1989 and 1990, he lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogram, between 1990 and 2011, he was an associate professor at the DFFB in Berlin, Germany. He became a member of the European Film Academy in 1997. In 2003, he founded TT Filmműhely, an independent film workshop which was led by him until 2011. TT Filmműhely produced his latest films and Tarr acted as producer on other remarkable filmmakers’ movies. The international film school Film.factory in Sarajevo was founded by Tarr in 2012; he was the head of programme and professor till 2016. Tarr was a visiting professor at several film academies. In 2017, at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, he developed an exhibition, Till the End of the World, that is a cross between a film, a theater set and an installation. He was the president of the Hungarian Filmmakers’ Association, member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts, has been given the most prestigious Hungarian prize for artists, the Kossuth Prize and the Hungarian prize for filmmakers, Béla Balázs Prize. He was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres and was honoured with several remarkable national, international awards, honorary doctorates and life achievement awards.

Filmography
Family Nest (1977), Hotel Magnezit (short, 1978), The Outsider (1980), The Prefab People (1982), Macbeth (TV, 1982), Almanac of Fall (1984), Damnation (1987), City Life (segment The Last Boat, short, 1989), Satantango (1994), Journey on the Plain (short, 1995), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Prologue (short, 2004), The Man from London (2007), The Turin Horse (2010)․