Overview
- The death was announced by director Bence Fliegauf on behalf of the family via Hungary’s MTI and confirmed by the European Film Academy, which reported a long, serious illness.
- Tarr died in Budapest on January 6 at age 70, and his family has requested privacy.
- His landmark works include Sátántangó (1994), a seven‑plus‑hour epic, Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), and The Turin Horse (2011), which won the Silver Bear/Grand Jury Prize at Berlin.
- After releasing The Turin Horse, he retired from fiction features and focused on teaching, founding the film.factory program in Sarajevo to mentor young filmmakers.
- A key partner of novelist László Krasznahorkai, the 2025 Nobel laureate, Tarr also received recent career honors in Tokyo (2024) and at Barcelona’s D’A festival (2025).