This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...

Title: Werckmeister Harmonies
Imdb rate: 8.2
Imdb votes: 11,068
Year: 2000
Language: Hungarian, Slovak
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Director: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky(co-director)
Writers: László Krasznahorkai (novel), László Krasznahorkai (screenplay), Béla Tarr (screenplay), Péter Dobai (additional dialogue), Gyuri Dósa Kiss (additional dialogue), György Fehér (additional dialogue)
Actors:
Lars Rudolph
Peter Fitz
Hanna Schygulla
János Derzsi

Awards: 5 wins & 2 nominations.