Macbeth (1982 film)

Summary

Macbeth is a 1982[1] Hungarian television film adapted, edited and directed by Béla Tarr.[2] György Cserhalmi stars Macbeth while Erzsébet Kútvölgyi portrays Lady Macbeth.[2] The film is composed of only two shots: The first (before the main title) is five minutes long, the second 57 minutes long.[3]

Macbeth
Directed byBéla Tarr
Screenplay byBéla Tarr
Based onMacbeth
by William Shakespeare
Starring
Cinematography
  • Buda Gulyás
  • Ferenc Papp
Edited byBéla Tarr
Music byAndrás Szabó
Distributed byMagyar Televízió
Release date
  • 16 March 1982 (1982-03-16)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryHungary
LanguageHungarian

Considered to be a watershed in the filmmaker's artistic development,[3] the film was among examples of Tarr's work screened at the Museum of Modern Art during a retrospective in October 2001.[4] It has also been screened during a retrospective at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival.[5]

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  • "Macbeth". British Universities Film and Video Council. n.d. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  • Meade, Fionn; Tarr, Béla (2007). "Béla Tarr". BOMB (100). New Art Publications: 34–39. ISSN 0743-3204. JSTOR 40427881.
  • "2011 :: Moscow International Film Festival". 2011. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  • "Film Exhibitions". MoMA. 4 (8). The Museum of Modern Art: 15–26. 2001. ISSN 0893-0279. JSTOR 4420628.
  • Rapfogel, Jared (2006). "Review: Family Nest by Béla Tarr; The Outsider by Béla Tarr; The Prefab People by Béla Tarr". Cinéaste. 31 (2): 62–64. ISSN 0009-7004. JSTOR 41689978.

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