Satantango

Irimiás

Petrina (as Dr. Putyi Horváth)

Schmidt

Schmidtné (as Éva Almási Albert)

Kráner

Kránerné

Halics

Futaki

Halicsné

Iskolaigazgató

Kocsmáros

Kerekes

Százados

Horgos Sanyi

Estike

Orvos

Horgosné

Kelemen

Orvos (voice: Hungary)

Narrator (voice)

(as Frigyes Hollósy)

Dorka Gryllus visited a friend on the set of Sátántangó, and was impressed by the whole "feeling of film making". It was then, when she decided to be a film actress - and in a few years, she became a famous Hungarian actress.

The movie was filmed between 4 February 1992 and 16 January 1994.

The film, like many of Béla Tarr's films, contains one of the longest average shot lengths in any motion picture: 145.7 seconds. A single long take approximately 4 hours into the movie lasts an incredible 10 minutes, 14 seconds.

Százados: Not that human life was so highly valued. Keeping order appears to be the business of the authorities, but in fact it's the business of all. Order. Freedom, however, has nothing human. It's something divine, something... our lives are too short for us to know properly. If you're looking for a link, think of Pericles, order and freedom are linked by passion. We have to believe in both, we suffer from both. Both from order and freedom. But human life is meaningful, rich, beautiful and filthy. It links everything. It mistreats freedom only... wasting it, as if it was junk. People don't like freedom, they are afraid of it. The strange thing is there is nothing to fear about freedom... order, on the other hand, can often be frightening.

Futaki: I shouldn't drink. When I do I keep thinking of coffins.