A dour loner, Karrer, attempts to steal back his estranged lover—a lounge singer in a funereal bar named Titanik—from her debt-addled husband. Karrer lures the husband into a smuggling scheme that will force him to leave town, but these well-laid plans soon go awry…

Six years before his magnum opus Sátántangó, Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr joined forces with writer László Krasznahorkai for this masterful cosmic burlesque. A noir-inflected tale of betrayal and revenge, Damnation is a perversely powerful plunge into the wretched depths of the human soul.