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Bela Tarr
Birth at
21 July 1955
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The unsurpassed master of Hungarian auteur cinema, director Bela Tarr, famous for his non-standard black and white cinematic films, was born on July 21, 1955 in the city of Pec. At the age of ten, his mother took him to the casting of a television project. As a result, Bela Tarr received the role of the son of the main character in the adaptation of Tolstoy’s play “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”. However, the boy did not enter the acting profession. He dreamed of becoming a philosopher. Considering cinema
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The unsurpassed master of Hungarian auteur cinema, director Bela Tarr, famous for his non-standard black and white cinematic films, was born on July 21, 1955 in the city of Pec. At the age of ten, his mother took him to the casting of a television project. As a result, Bela Tarr received the role of the son of the main character in the adaptation of Tolstoy’s play “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”. However, the boy did not enter the acting profession. He dreamed of becoming a philosopher. Considering cinema as a hobby, Bela Tarr made his first film – a twenty-minute documentary about a gypsy labor brigade – at the age of sixteen. After school he entered the Budapest Academy of Theatre and Film. In the late eighties he became a scholarship holder in Berlin, and since 1990 - a teacher at the Berlin Film Academy.
At twenty-two, in just one week, Tarr shot his first full-length film, Home Nest. The film received the Hungarian Film Criticism Award and the Mannheim Film Festival Award. The second film was The Outsider. It is one of three color films in Tarr’s work. The sad story, ending with an ellipsis, became the calling card of the director. “Big Block People” (1982) is the third film of the master, which caused various criticisms. In 2011 at the Berlin Film Festival painting by Bela Tarr
"Turin horse" She was awarded the second most important prize, the Silver Bear. After the premiere of this film, the director announced his retirement from cinema. /