flooding

His apocalyptic vision in films like 'Sátántangó' and 'Tûrhalom' explores catastrophic environmental collapse and societal dissolution through nightmarish, waterlogged landscapes.

He uses flooding as a metaphor for moral and spiritual crisis in 'Leviathan' and other works, depicting how natural disasters expose human corruption and societal breakdown.

His obsession with man versus nature is epitomized in 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo,' where rivers and water become instruments of human folly and natural indifference.