Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker, died on Tuesday at the age of 70, Bence Fliegauf, a fellow film director, announced on behalf of the family.
Born in Pécs in 1955, Tarr began his career as an amateur filmmaker at the age of 16. He later worked at the Béla Balázs Studio, the hub of Hungarian experimental cinema (in Budapest), where he directed his first feature film, Family Nest (Családi tűzfészek), in 1977.
His 1988 film Damnation (Kárhozat), the first independent Hungarian feature, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and achieved significant international acclaim.
In 1997, he was elected a member of the European Film Academy. In 2003, he founded the TT Filmműhely workshop, which he led until 2011 and through which he produced his final films, including The Turin Horse (A torinói ló), which he declared his last work as a director.
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