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• Damnation | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. The first film in which Hungarian auteur B''la Tarr's fully realised his mesmerising and apocalyptic world view is an immaculately photographed and composed study of eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization.

• The Bela Tarr Collection | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The extraordinary Hungarian director Bela Tarr is one of the worlds most original and accalimed contemporary filmakers. In a body of work concerned with metaphysical explorations of the human condition he has created an uncompromising innovative and utterley engrossing cinematic world. Titles Comprise: Damnation (K''rhozat): In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. Tarr's immaculately photographed and composed film is about eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization. Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmon''-ak): The population of a provincial town on the Hungarian plains await the arrival of a circus that features the stuffed carcass of a whale and a mysterious Prince. Its appearance disturbs the order of the small town unleashing a torrent of violence and beauty. The Man From London (A Londoni F''rfi): When a withdrawn and reclusive railway signalman witnesses a murder his life is transformed and he is forced to confront issues of morality sin punishment and the line between innocence and complicity. Based on a novel by thriller writer Georges Simenon this hypnotic film bears all the distinctive trademarks of Tarr's universe.