Satantango

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

• farm
• countryside
• based on novel or book
• cat
• rain
• hungary
• loneliness
• art house
• poverty
• black and white
• writer
• alcoholic
• mental illness
• remodernist
• nonlinear timeline
• multiple perspectives
• contemplative cinema
• powerful