Preceded by short: Six Bagatelles.

(Családi tüzfészek). Tarr's debut feature, made when he was only 22 years old and before he had even begun film school, earned him the Hungarian Critics Prize for best first film and shared top honors at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1979. Due to a severe housing shortage, a young married couple are forced to live with the husband's parents in a claustrophobic one-room apartment. No space to move, no room to think: every movement ends in collision, every conversation ends in argument. When the husband returns from a brief military service, tensions finally erupt, with his wife at the center of the storm. While often citing Cassavetes as an early influence, Tarr here seems inspired more by reality than cinema, creating a furious indictment of a society unable to even house its own. The cast was drawn from an actual family, themselves stuck waiting for an apartment in Budapest's seemingly endless housing shortage.

Six Bagatelles (Hat bagatell) (Béla Tarr, Hungary, 1989). Tarr's entry to a six–film compilation of student films provides insights into his beginnings in the Budapest School. Assembled by György Fehér. (Segment: c. 15 mins, In Hungarian with French subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Courtesy Hungarofilm (Magyar Filmunio))