László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai

Birth : 1954-05-01, Gyula, Hungary

History

László Krasznahorkai was born on 5 January 1954, is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, notably his novels Satantango (Sátántangó, 1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája, 1989), have been turned into feature films by Hungarian film director Béla Tarr.

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László Krasznahorkai

Movies

A BÁRÓ HAZATÉR
A BÁRÓ HAZATÉR
Himself
László Krasznahorkai is the 'contemporary master of the apocalypse' as Susan Sontag described him. We discussed what I could show of him if I were to make a portrait film. Whatever I asked, his answer was no. That is how this film has begun.
The Turin Horse
The Turin Horse
Screenplay
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
The Man from London
The Man from London
Screenplay
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies
Author
A mysterious circus excites a small Hungarian town into a rebellion when a promised act doesn't perform.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies
Writer
A mysterious circus excites a small Hungarian town into a rebellion when a promised act doesn't perform.
Satantango
Satantango
Novel
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Satantango
Satantango
Screenplay
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Damnation
Damnation
Writer
Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...