Have you ever wondered how long the longest movie in the world lasts? We already ask ourselves for you, do not worry. Of course, the answer will surprise you. First, however, it is necessary to make a distinction, since most of the longest films in history have an experimental format, which is not intended to see everything followed (otherwise it would be to go crazy), but so that the The viewer only sees a small portion of the film in an exhibition, for example.
If what you are looking for is the longest film in the world but commercially, the answer is somewhat more bearable , although surely seeing it from beginning to end is a tough test for the brave who want to push their passion for cinema to the limit. In this article we will see ten of the longest films of the world , five experimental and five commercial.
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Top 5: the longest experimental films in the world
1. Logistics
The longest film title in the world to date is held by this movie experimental of the Swedish artists Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson and lasts a whopping 51,420 minutes. Or what is the same, 857 hours. Or, if you prefer, 35 days and 17 hours. In Logistics (which, by the way, was displayed in a library, in the house of Stockholm culture and even in a film festival) follows the history of the manufacture of a pedometer in real time and in the opposite chronological sense (ie, from its entrance to the store until its conception).
2. Modern Times Forever
To find the next longest film in the world you have to drastically reduce the shooting time, since Modern Times Forever , filmed by the group of Danish artists Superflex, "only" lasts 240 hours, that is, 10 days . Like the rest of the films on this list, this film does not have a clear plot line, but shows how the Stora Enso building in Helsinki will decay over the next thousands of years. The film was screened for the first time against the same building.
3. Beijing 2003
You may hear the name of the director of this longest movie in the world, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. In this film, which lasts almost a week (to be exact, 150 hours, that is, 6 days and 6 hours), the artist, accompanied by two assistants and a driver, taxes each and every one of the streets of the megacity of Beijing to show with a single camera, and a great meticulousness, the behavior of its inhabitants and the space in which they move.
4. Four stars
This famous Andy Warhol film lasts 25 hours and is recorded using thirty-five minute rolls of film, one after the other. Unlike other artist's films, Four stars (which, by the way, is a reference to the American film criticism system, in which the four stars were the maximum) was not recorded in a single shot-sequence, but has cuts. In the film participate a few of the actors who used to collaborate with the artist, such as Edie Sedgwick, Ondine ...
5. 24 hour Psycho
Finally, in 1993 the British artist Douglas Gordon decided to create this experimental film in which he slowed down the film Psychosis , by Alfred Hitchcock, to last twenty-four fair hours instead of the original 109 minutes. To do this, he slowed down the movie to show two images per second instead of the usual 24. The way the film was shown to the world is also surprising, since the artist taught it to those interested in his own room.
Top 5: the longest commercial movies in the world
1. Resan
The longest film in the world with a commercial point of view (as far as it goes, of course) never filmed is Resan (The journey) , a documentary of 1987 with about 14 hours of duration and structured around the opinions of people of the street on the nuclear weapons, the army or the poverty. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival that year, but has barely been shown again.
2. How Yukong Moved the Mountains
Most of the world's longest films with a more commercial point of view are documentaries, as is the case with this 1976 film by French filmmaker Joris Ivens. In How Yukong Moved the Mountains reference is made to the last days of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the story of the grandfather who removed the mountains, in which the story is told of an old man who wanted to open a path, he alone, through two mountains that burned him He passed.
3. Shoah
This ten-hour documentary talks about the extermination of the Jewish people during the Second World War. Shoah (whose meaning, in Hebrew, means 'catastrophe'), however, it does not do so through archival images, but only from individual and collective interviews to all kinds of people related to that terrible event: victims, perpetrators , witnesses, experts and interested.
4. War and peace
The longest film in the world could well be this 1967 Russian superproduction that holds other records by itself, for example, the largest battle ever filmed for the scene of the battle of Borodino, in which more than 120,000 soldiers participated. War and peace had a great impact for his ambition: it lasts 8 hours, is divided into four parts and is based on the titanic novel by Tolstoy of the same name.
5. Satantango
Béla Tarr is one of those directors who leaves no one indifferent. With this monumental 8-hour film, in which he tells of the abandonment of a collective farm in his native Hungary, Tarr got the favor of critics and film fans, since it is not only considered one of the longest films of the world, but also an authentic work of art, filmed with the unmistakable style of its director and in black and white.
You may never have time to watch the longest movie in the world, but these summaries produce curiosity, right? Tell us, have you ever dared to see any of these movies? Or has a movie made you especially long? Do you think we've left something on the list? Remember you can leave us a comment!