In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer, a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world, but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. The first film in which Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr s fully realised his mesmerising and apocalyptic world view is an immaculately photographed and composed study of eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization. Special Features: Interview with Béla Tarr