Film Club Special Edition at Researchers' Night – The Life and Work of László Krasznahorkai Through the Films of Béla Tarr: "Damnation"

The ELTE–NFI FILMIO University Film Club aims to pay tribute, through the programme organised on the occasion of Researchers’ Night, to László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from ELTE in September 2026, and to film director Béla Tarr, who passed away this year. This was the film they worked on together for the first time, and for which they co-wrote the screenplay. This brought Tarr his first international recognition.

 

Date: 25 September 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Square Campus, Emilia Weiss Hall (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3, ground floor)

 

Director – Béla Tarr

Screenwriter – Béla Tarr, László Krasznahorkai

Cinematographer – Gábor Medvigy

Editor – Ágnes Hranitzky

Composer – Mihály Víg

Stars: Miklós Székely B., Hédi Temessy, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer, György Cserhalmi, Péter Breznyik Berg.

 

Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO01nO5tVU

Our guests during the post-screening discussion are:

András Bálint Kovács – film aesthete, university professor
Tibor Gintli – literary historian, university professor
Katinka Tóth –law and literature researcher, assistant professor

 

Kovács András Bálint
          András Bálint Kovács
Tóth Katinka
                 Katinka Tóth
Gintli Tibor
                    Tibor Gintli

 

 

Due to limited seating, we ask for advance registration on the Researchers' Night website: https://app.kutatokejszakaja.hu/esemenyek/elte-allam-es-jogtudomanyi-kar/krasznahorkai-laszlo-eletmuve-tarr-bela-filmjein-keresztul-karhozat-r-tarr-bela-1987

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Source/author of illustration:
National Film Institute