2011 | Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, France, USA
155’
DoP: Fred Kelemen
director: Béla Tarr

On January 3, 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the door of house number six on Via Carlo Alberto in Turin. Not far from him, a cab driver is struggling with an unruly horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and strikes it with his whip. Nietzsche approaches the crowd and puts an end to this brutal scene by wrapping his arms around the horse’s neck and weeping. His landlord takes him home, where he lies motionless and silent on the sofa for two days before muttering his final, obligatory words; he then lives for another ten years, silent and deranged, cared for by his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to that horse.