Damnation

Name: Damnation
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1988-10-20
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Péter Breznyik Berg, János Gémes, Székely B. Miklós, Gábor Balogh, Vali Kerekes

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

10/20/1988

Runtime

116 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...

Status

Released

Original Language

Hungarian

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

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A monochromatic fever dream of urban despair where a solitary man's desperate longing for an unattainable woman becomes the only anchor to meaning. Damnation moves through rain-soaked streets and dim bars with dreamlike logic, blurring the line between obsession and salvation.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulUnsettling

Themes

LoveObsessionIsolationRedemption

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Black and whitePainterly

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Addiction

Székely B. Miklós

Karrer

György Cserhalmi

Sebestyén

Vali Kerekes

The Singer

Gyula Pauer

Willarsky

Hédi Temessy

Cloakroom Attendant

Gábor Balogh

János Balogh

Péter Breznyik Berg

Imre Chmelik

János Gémes

Ágnes Kamondy

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

A somber tale and the film making moved at a snails pace, the camera moves slow, the editing is slow and every single movement anything does feels slow wich adds to the film.
It's really unique and not something I've seen before wich is awesome.