Miklós Jancsó

Born: 1921-09-27

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.


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Sodankylä Forever

as Self
Released: 2010-08-05

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...

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Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse

as Himself
Released: 2001-02-15

Waiters’ competition at Heroes’ Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe...

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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

as Himself
Released: 1999-01-28

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then...

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Negative history of Hungarian cinema

as Self
Released: 2010-01-01

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film...

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Sticky Matters

as Himself
Released: 2001-10-11

A girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love...

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Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról

as uncredited
Released: 2002-01-01

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Ed's Eaten Elevenses

as Himself / Marcus Aurelius
Released: 2006-10-12

Jancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries...

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Damn You! the Mosquitoes

as Himself
Released: 2000-02-10

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn...

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A Kádár-korszak demokratikus ellenzéke

as Himself
Released: 2009-01-26

A documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary.

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