Famous for its long shots of the bleak landscape, many of which drag on for over 10 minutes, this film focuses on Irimias' and Petrinas' scheme to abscond with the money that the villagers stand to gain from the closing of a failed collective farm.
During one scene in this film, a girl crawling around in an attic captures and kills a cat by feeding it poisoned milk, after which she runs off with the cat's body to a ruined castle where she commits suicide. The suicide of Esti leads the main character of this film to give a long speech in which he asks for money to help form an autonomous collective, and later, that main character and Esti's brother Sanyi have a vision of Esti's spirit on the grounds of Wekenheim castle. This film begins with a shot of cows among the ruins of a village, and its first section, titled, "The News is They Are Coming," is introduced by a narration which describes how one rainy October morning, Futaki was awoken by the sound of bells. Famous for its long shots of the bleak landscape, many of which drag on for over 10 minutes, this film focuses on Irimias' and Petrinas' scheme to abscond with the money that the villagers stand to gain from the closing of a failed collective farm. For 10 points, identify this seven-hour long film based on a Laszlo Krasznahorkai novel of the same name, one of the best known works of Hungarian director Bela Tarr.
During one scene in this film, a girl crawling around in an attic captures and kills a cat by feeding it poisoned milk, after which she runs off with the cat's body to a ruined castle where she commits suicide.
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