Overview
- His family announced the death through director Bence Fliegauf to the national news agency MTI, with the Association of Hungarian Filmmakers citing a long, serious illness.
- Budapest’s mayor Gergely Karácsony paid tribute, calling Tarr “the most free man I have known” and praising his devotion to human dignity.
- Tarr’s signature style featured extended takes and stark black‑and‑white imagery, with the seven‑hour Satantango widely regarded as a landmark of arthouse cinema.
- He frequently collaborated with Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai on works including Satantango and Werckmeister Harmonies, which screened at major festivals in Berlin and Cannes.
- After The Turin Horse in 2011, he largely stepped away from feature filmmaking to teach in Europe, while remaining publicly engaged, including reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to open Budapest Pride.