A movie that doesn't actually end until 7 AM — and it sold out anyway

A Seoul theater posted the run-of-show for its midnight screening of an infamously long art film, intermissions and all.

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Korean community post, image 1: Sátántangó's full schedule: three parts, three intermissions, plus a 2-hour post-film chat — nearly 10 hour…
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Sátántangó's full schedule: three parts, three intermissions, plus a 2-hour post-film chat — nearly 10 hours total, ending at '31:00.'

<사탄탱고> 러닝타임 안내 1부 2시간 18분 인터미션 15분 2부 2시간 4분 인터미션 15분 3부 2시간 57분 인터미션 10분 언택트톡 1시간 55분

💡 Wait, why does it say '31:00' instead of '7 AM'?
Korean overnight schedules often keep counting hours past midnight instead of resetting to zero, so a screening that runs 7 more hours after midnight reads as ending at 31:00.vs. the US: like a TV listing calling a 2 AM slot '26:00' on the programming grid.Klore note
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The movie that ends at 31:00 and still sold out31시에 끝나는데 매진인 영화

EVENT INFOEVENT INFO

Everyone attending gets a commemorative postcard and pin from the Sátántangó post-screening talk.관람하는 모든 분들께 <사탄탱고> 언택트톡 기념 엽서와 핀버튼을 드립니다.

(postcard front/back shown)(엽서 앞면/뒷면 이미지)

Pin reads: 'I watched Sátántangó all the way through.''사탄탱고 끝까지 다 본 사람' 핀버튼

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Korean community post, image 3: The photo from the post.
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The photo from the post.

(영화 기념 굿즈인 엽서와 '끝까지 다 본 사람' 핀버튼)

💡 Why would a sold-out crowd want to sit through a nearly 10-hour screening overnight?
Béla Tarr's Sátántangó runs 7 hours and 19 minutes without the intermissions — nearly 10 hours with the breaks and the post-film talk — and it's legendary among cinephiles as one of the slowest, longest films ever made, so finishing it is basically a badge of honor worth handing out a real badge for.vs. Reddit: like getting a medal for finishing an ultramarathon just for not quitting.Klore note

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