Werckmeister Harmonies Format:Blu Ray supervised by cinematographer Lajos Koltai

supervised by cinematographer Lajos Koltai and approved by director Márta Mészáros

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The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime

Werckmeister Harmonies Format:Blu Ray supervised by cinematographer Lajos KoltaiThis mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by Lszl Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circuscomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue like figure known as the Princearrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably