The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.
A film by world-famous director Béla Tarr, who passed away at the beginning of the year, based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai.
A traveling circus unexpectedly arrives in a boring, quiet small town in the Hungarian Plain. Two of its attractions attract the public's attention: the prince and the giant whale. Strangers also come to the town, whom the prince enrages and incites to destruction, along with the locals. In a short time, all hell breaks loose, which common sense is unable to stop. The work paints a dark picture of our human present and future, in which there is no longer any place for idealism, and where the sharp line between killers and victims is often blurred.
The film will be shown with English subtitles. The discussion following the screening will also be in English.
Date: 27 April 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, community space (Budapest, V. Ferenciek tere 6., ground floor)
In main roles: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Péter Dobai, Ferenc Kállai, Kati Lázár.
Facilitate the discussion: Kinga Pétervári, associate professor at ELTE Faculty of Economics.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJVdq_G_Go
Due to limited seating, advance registration is required: eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.
The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at this address.
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