Tarr fell asleep on Epiphany, director Bence Fliegauf told Hungary's national news agency MTI on behalf of the family.
Tarr is best known for directing the film “Satantango” (1994), a seven-hour epic about the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and its material and spiritual decay, based on a novel by fellow Hungarian and Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai, with whom he often collaborated.
His film "The Turin Horse", based on Krasznahorkai's script, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011. Both that film and "Satantango" are currently available to watch on SVT Play.
The filmmaker was 70.
