“Satanic Tango” is a world-famous novel by a recognized European classic, winner of the International Booker Prize. Written in 1985, the novel follows the tango model: the action follows the figures of a dance that leads the characters first forward and then back again to the beginning. In socialist Hungary, the impoverished peasants of a collapsing rural cooperative get drunk, gossip and dream of breaking out into the big world. Suddenly they receive news that a man who was considered dead is returning to the village. An energetic and charming person from the other world promises them a wonderful new life, and hope flares up in people, comparable to the expectation of the Messiah. This brilliant book-parable in the spirit of Kafka and Beckett is filmed by the famous master of auteur cinema Bela Tarr. The film was awarded the Berlin Film Festival and the honorary Belgian Golden Age Award. “Satanic Tango” is the first novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai published in Russian.