Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
In a rural Hungary of post-communism of the 1990’s, a group of farmers decides to free themselves and get their annual salary together to get to a more profitable farm. Leaded by the messianic figure of Irimiás (Mihály Vig who also composed the eerie but transcendental score) along with his collaborator Petrina (Putyi Horváth) the comic relief of the charming that is Irimias and his kind words the group will let their entire salary to the leader to get to a place where they will be their own bosses. Just like Lenny’s farm in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the group will blindly believe the wise mouthed con artist. The other characters are many couples, the Schmidts (László Lugossy and Éva Almássy Albert), the Kraners (János Derzsi and Irén Szajki), the Halics (Alfréd Járai and Erzsébet Gaál), Futaki (Miklós Székely B.), and the hermit doctor (Peter Berling).
