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János Derzsi

Highest Rated: 100% Sátántangó (1994)

Lowest Rated: 62% The Man From London (2007)

Birthday: Apr 20, 1954

Birthplace: Nyírábrány, Hungary

Hungarian actor Janos Derzsi is best known internationally for his work with slow cinema auteur Béla Tarr. Derzsi has co-starred in several of Tarr's productions, including an early performance in the 1982 television adaptation of "Macbeth." The film, which only runs 72 minutes, is composed of only two shots and marked the beginning of a new phase in Tarr's career. Derzsi continued working with Tarr and next appeared in the 1984 film "Almanac of Fall," about a group of people living in the flat of an ill elderly woman. Derzsi plays the lowlife son of the older woman. Derzsi also appeared in two of Tarr's most acclaimed films, the seven-hour masterwork "Satantango," about the effects of the end of Communism on a small rural community, and in "The Werckmeister Harmonies," about a rural town whose residents become fixated on a traveling circus that comes to the village showcasing a bizarre giant whale corpse. In "The Turin Horse," what Tarr has deemed his last film, Derzsi gets his most substantial role yet with the Hungarian director, starring as a farmer, Ohlsdorfer, who lives with his daughter in the harsh countryside, living out their lives doing backbreaking farm work and mundane chores while waiting for the end to come.

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Highest rated movies

100% 92% Sátántangó
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100% 74% Almanac of Fall
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93% Twilight
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89% 77% The Turin Horse
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87% 71% White God
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62% 61% The Man From London
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The Sun Street Boys
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Emma and the Death's Head
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Szenvedely
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The Law of the Gypsies
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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Emma and the Death's Head Németh (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Indian Caretaker (Character) - 2016
87% 71% White God Homeless (Character) $280.5K 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Drága Besúgott Barátaim János (Character) - 2012
89% 77% The Turin Horse Ohlsdorfer (Character) - 2011
62% 61% The Man From London Brown (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nosedive Veterán (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sun Street Boys Juli's dad (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hourglass Kohn (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 58% After the Day Before Unknown (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Temptations Szkárosi Tibor (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Szenvedely The man (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Law of the Gypsies Unknown (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gypsy Lore János (Character) - 1997
100% 92% Sátántangó Kráner (Character) - 1994
93% No Score Yet Twilight K. (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 73% Laurin Arne (Character) - 1989
100% 74% Almanac of Fall János (Character) - 1984