Miklós Jancsó
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 shots, long takes, historical periods, rural settings, and a lack of psychoanalyzing. A frequent theme of his films is the abuse of power. His works are often allegorical commentaries on Hungary under Communism and the Soviet occupation, although some critics prefer to stress the universal dimensions of Jancsó's explorations. Towards the end of the 1960s and especially into the 1970s, Jancsó's work became increasingly stylized and overtly symbolic. He received five nominations for the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. winning for Red Psalm in 1972. In 1973 he was awarded the prestigious Kossuth Prize in Hungary. He received awards for his life work in 1979 and 1990, at Cannes and Venice respectively. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miklós Jancsó, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
as HimselfWaiters’ competition at Heroes’ Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe...
Movie pageEd's Eaten Elevenses
as Himself / Marcus AureliusJancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries...
Movie pageWake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
as Miklós JancsóThis time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor...
Movie pageSticky Matters
as HimselfA girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love...
Movie pageThe Lord's Lantern in Budapest
as HimselfIn the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then...
Movie pageSodankylä Forever
as SelfThe Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...
Movie pageDamn You! the Mosquitoes
as Miklós JancsóKapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn...
Movie pageNegative history of Hungarian cinema
as SelfReconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film...
Movie pageA Kádár-korszak demokratikus ellenzéke
as HimselfA documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary.
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