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The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian period drama film directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók, and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city of Turin that is rumoured to have caused the mental breakdown of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The film is in black-and-white, shot…
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There are movies ... and then there are audio-visual statements, that deal with foundational aspects of the human experience. "The Turin Horse", certainly belongs to the latter group. What the director is trying to accomplish here, is nothing less than an alternative version of an "apocalypse". He combines both religious -and philosophical aspects, using a famous incident where the German philosopher Frederich Nietz…More
The film story Turin Horse begins on the First day. It ends on the Sixth. God created the world in six days, man as the crown on the Seventh. Here, as in the reverse cosmogony, a man is the witness and chief responsible for the destruction of life in six days. Each individual calls for strict accountability, but why is the dedication to Nietzsche? He overcame the horrors of man's life with a radically negative criti…More