Hungarian director Béla Tarr dies

Hungarian director Bela Tarr died at the age of 71. This was reported by the Hungarian news agency MTI and Index .

As follows from a statement by the Hungarian Film Association, Tarr died on the morning of January 6 after a serious and long illness. He was 70 years old, Tarr was born in 1955 in the Hungarian city of Pecs.

He began his career as a film enthusiast at the age of 16. At the age of 22, Tarr shot his first feature-length documentary film, “The Family Nest,” about the life of a large Hungarian family in a small apartment.

The 7-hour film “Satanic Tango” brought Tarr the greatest fame. This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Hungarian writer, laureate of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Since the eighties, the latter has been a screenwriter for the director’s other films: “The Damnation,” “Werkmeister Harmonies” and “The Turin Horse.”

"The Turin Horse" was Tarr's last full-length film. The film received the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011.