# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bela-tarr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:12.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bela-tarr"
name: "Béla Tarr"
slug: "bela-tarr"
description: "Béla Tarr was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter and producer. His films are distinguished by their stark black-and-white visuals, extended long takes, languid pacing, and an absence of traditional plotting. They explore existential themes and often focus on marginalized, desperate characters in bleak landscapes. He became known as a founding figure of the slow cinema genre, most notably with his influential 1994 film Sátántangó. That film is often in scholarly polls of the greatest films ever made."
tagline: "Hungarian filmmaker and anarchist (1955–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B%C3%A9la_Tarr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-07-21"
deathDate: "2026-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.55
  momentum:             15.0879593432369
  historical:           24.363092
  currentAttention:     4.760000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850601/"
    handle:    "nm0850601"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Բելա Տարր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Béla Tarr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Béla Tarr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump