Werckmeister Harmonies « Movie from 2001

Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s transcendent, enigmatic, and hypnotic parable of societal collapse unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence.