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This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...

Genres: Drama

Starring: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla

Released: July 12, 2000

Runtime: 145.0

Popularity Rating: 7.970

13 Productions, Arte, Fondazione Montecinemaverita, Goess Film, Magyar Mozgokep Alapitvany

Hungary

Janos Valuska Lars Rudolph
Gyorgy Eszter Peter Fitz
Tunde Eszter Hanna Schygulla
Lajos Harrer Alfred Jarai
Mr. Hagelmayer Gyula Pauer

Camera — Director of Photography: Miklos Gurban
Directing — Director: Agnes Hranitzky
Directing — Director: Bela Tarr
Sound — Music: Mihaly Vig
Writing — Author: Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Writing — Co-Writer: Bela Tarr
Writing — Writer: Laszlo Krasznahorkai