{"id":2225233,"date":"2026-01-07T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2225233"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:18:36","slug":"hungarian-director-bela-tarr-known-for-darkly-comic-films-dies-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hungarian-director-bela-tarr-known-for-darkly-comic-films-dies-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Director B\u00e9la Tarr, Known For Darkly Comic Films, Dies At 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 The Hungarian filmmaker B\u00e9la Tarr, director of such works as S\u00e1t\u00e1ntang\u00f3 and The Turin Horse and the recipient of numerous awards for his long and often darkly comic films, has died at 70.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>During a career spanning more than four decades, Tarr\u2019s films were awarded prizes at festivals around Europe and Asia, and he received honorary professorships at universities in China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"FILE - Jury president Bela Tarr attends the closing ceremony of the the 16th Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016. (AP Photo\/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/695d14632b0000c169683689.jpeg?cache=casynAMQcz&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/695d14632b0000c169683689.jpeg?cache=casynAMQcz&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale 1x, https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/695d14632b0000c169683689.jpeg?cache=casynAMQcz&amp;ops=scalefit_1440 2x\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\">FILE &#8211; Jury president Bela Tarr attends the closing ceremony of the the 16th Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016. (AP Photo\/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the Hungarian Filmmakers\u2019 Association confirmed Tarr\u2019s death, writing that \u201cwith deep sorrow we announce that, after a long and serious illness, film director B\u00e9la Tarr passed away early this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Tarr\u2019s films, the longest of which, S\u00e1t\u00e1ntang\u00f3, clocks in at 439 minutes, were often shot in black and white and used stark imagery to depict despair and social decay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Defined by long, hypnotic takes, Tarr\u2019s filmmaking came to an end after he released The Turin Horse in 2011 and announced he was retiring from making feature films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 The Hungarian filmmaker B\u00e9la Tarr, director of such works as S\u00e1t\u00e1ntang\u00f3 and The Turin Horse and the recipient of numerous awards for his long and often darkly comic films, has died at 70. 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