Werckmeister Harmonies

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Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is a 2000 Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr.

At once horrifically bleak and breathtakingly beautiful, the film - shot in black and white and composed of only thirty-nine languidly paced shots - describes the aimlessness and anomie of a small town on the Hungarian plain that falls under the fascist influence of a sinister traveling circus lugging the immense body of a whale in its tow. A young man named Janos tries to keep order in the increasingly restless town even as he begins to lose his faith in the unnatural and disordered universe from which God Himself seems to have disappeared.