A down-at-heel mining town in the middle of nowhere. Karrer’s life is aimless and only his passion for the singer in the local bar is able to pull him out of total apathy. The woman breaks off with him but Karrer is not ready to accept this rejection. When he is offered a job smuggling goods, he passes it on to the singer’s husband in order to make another approach to the woman in her husband’s absence. Damnation brought Béla Tarr international acclaim. A down-at-heel mining town in the middle of nowhere. Karrer’s life is aimless and only his passion for the singer in the local bar is able to pull him out of total apathy. The woman breaks off with him but Karrer is not ready to accept this rejection. When he is offered a job smuggling goods, he passes it on to the singer’s husband in order to make another approach to the woman in her husband’s absence. Damnation brought Béla Tarr international acclaim.
NFI Film Archive / In memoriam Béla Tarr











