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The Turin Horse ()

A torinói ló (original title)
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A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
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Ohlsdorfer
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Ohlsdorfer's daughter
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Bernhard
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Ricsi ...
Horse
Mihály Ráday ...
Narrator (voice)

Directed by

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Béla Tarr
Ágnes Hranitzky ... (co-director)

Written by

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László Krasznahorkai ... (screenplay)
 
Béla Tarr ... (screenplay)

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Martin Hagemann ... producer
Juliette Lepoutre ... producer
Marie-Pierre Macia ... producer
Elizabeth Redleaf ... executive producer
Mike S. Ryan ... executive producer
Gábor Téni ... producer
Ruth Waldburger ... producer
Christine K. Walker ... executive producer

Music by

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Mihály Vig

Cinematography by

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Fred Kelemen

Editing by

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Ágnes Hranitzky

Editorial Department

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Donovan Kosters ... dcp mastering
László Kovács ... colorist
Judit Szép ... film grader

Production Design by

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László Rajk

Production Management

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Kata Czigler ... unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Yann-Eryl Mer ... first assistant director

Sound Department

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Nick Biscardi ... commentary re-recordist
János Csáki ... sound recordist
Gábor Erdélyi ... sound mixer (as Gábor ifj. Erdélyi) / supervising sound editor (as Gábor ifj. Erdélyi)
Csaba Erös ... sound recordist
István Pergel ... sound recordist
Drew Weir ... voice recordist

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Zoltán Pataki ... special effects technician

Camera and Electrical Department

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Tilman Büttner ... steadicam operator
Miklós Hajdu ... gaffer
Zsolt Jámbor ... grip
Tamás Jánossa ... first assistant camera "a"
Zoltán Gecco Kristóffy ... best boy electrician (as Zoltán Kristoffy)
Robert Patzelt ... steadicam operator
Marcus Pohlus ... steadicam operator
Gábor Szeles ... best boy

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Judit Propper ... script supervisor

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Lajos Kovács ... voice dubbing: Mihály Kormos
Ricardo Monastier ... sales representative
Francis Ouellette ... distribution: Canada

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Plot Summary

1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse's neck to protect it then collapsed to the ground. In less than one month, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would make him bed-ridden and speechless for the next eleven years until his death. But whatever did happen to the horse? This film, which is Tarr's last, follows up this question in a fictionalized story of what occurred. The man who whipped the horse is a rural farmer who makes his living taking on carting jobs into the city with his horse-drawn cart. The horse is old and in very poor health, but does its best to obey its master's commands. The farmer and his daughter must come to the understanding that it will be unable to go on sustaining their livelihoods. The dying of the horse is the foundation of this tragic tale. Written by Anonymous

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Also Known As
  • Le cheval de Turin (France)
  • Das Pferd von Turin (Germany)
  • Das Turiner Pferd (Germany)
  • The Turin Horse (United States)
  • The Turin Horse (Egypt, English title)
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Runtime
  • 155 min
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Trivia The movie consists of only 30 takes. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Paul Schrader on Revisiting Transcendental Style in Film (2017). See more »
Quotes Narrator: In Turin on the 3rd of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert, perhaps to take a stroll, perhaps to go by the post office to collect his mail. Not far from him, the driver of a hansome cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver - Giuseppe? Carlo? Ettore? - loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene caused by the driver, by this time foaming at the mouth with rage. For the solidly built and full-moustached gentleman suddenly jumps up to the cab and throws his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. His landlord takes him home, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words "Mutter, ich bin dumm!" and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, under the care of his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to the horse.
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