Miklós Jancsó

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Miklós Jancsó

Born September 27, 1921 · Vác, Hungary

Died January 31, 2014 · aged 92

Miklós Jancsó (27 September 1921 – 31 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up (Szegénylegények, 1965), The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák, 1967) and Red Psalm (Még kér a nép, 1971).  Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization, elegantly choreographed sho…

Known For

Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarrólLegkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról · 2002
Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról
8.02002
Movie
Allegro BarbaroAllegro Barbaro · 1979
Allegro Barbaro
6.91979
MovieDramaHistory
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.
Hungary 2011Hungary 2011 · 2012
Hungary 2011
2012
MovieDramaDocumentary
Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.
Message of Stones: MáramarosMessage of Stones: Máramaros · 1994
Message of Stones: Máramaros
7.51994
MovieDocumentary
The second film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.
EncounterEncounter · 1963
Encounter
6.51963
MovieDrama
A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek uses documentary techniques in a fiction context to make the frailty of everyday life as palpable as possible.
The PresenceThe Presence · 1965
The Presence
6.51965
MovieDocumentary
Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.
Private Vices, Public VirtuesPrivate Vices, Public Virtues · 1976
Private Vices, Public Virtues
5.21976
MovieDramaWar
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.
Season of MonstersSeason of Monsters · 1987
Season of Monsters
5.51987
MovieDrama
Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz. The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi join the police in investigating what drove the man to suicide.

Filmography

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Silence and CrySilence and Cry · 1968
Silence and Cry
7.11968
MovieDrama
Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.

Director

Last Supper at the Arabian Gray HorseLast Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse · 2001
Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
4.22001
MovieComedy
Waiters’ competition at Heroes’ Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe awake in the bronze chariot of the millennial sculpture group. They drive along the Danube promenade, and on the concrete reinforcement of the demolished Budapest rondella hotel they get involved in a showdown of political background. In the burnt-down Sports Hall the waiters train for a last supper, Pepe and Kapa run around the big laid table with trays in their hands. While doing so, Pepe keeps crying out: "I am the best one, I am the most beautiful one, I am the king, I am the god..." Sitting in a boat on the Danube, a ship goes past them, and the Niagara falls, majestic and breathtaking, resound in their ears. On each passing away something new will come to life – as rapped by Sub Bass Monster.

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