Q. I got the impression that the film is not really about the horse but about Nietzsche's silence. It's almost a silent film.

A. Not only Nietzsche's silence - the silence of everybody. These people have a daily life. I wanted to show how it's difficult to be - how being is so hard, and so simple.

[...] Kundera talks about 'the unbearable lightness of being' - I wanted to talk about the heaviness of being.

Bela Tarr, interviewed in Sight and Sound