Miklós Jancsó

Director

Miklós Jancsó

Born September 27, 1921 in Vác, HungaryDied January 31, 201460 films

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.

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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.

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The Red and the White posterFirst watchThe Red and the White19677.0Their style at its most typical, and among their best-rated work.In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.View film

Essential films

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The Round-Up poster7.2The Round-Up1966Red Psalm poster6.3Red Psalm1972

Filmography

60 films as director
  1. 2012Hungary 2011Director
  2. 2010So Much for Justice!Director
  3. 2006Ed's Eaten ElevensesDirector
  4. 2004From Europe Into EuropeDirector
  5. 2004The Battle of MohácsDirector
  6. 2003Wake Up, Mate, Don't You SleepDirector
  7. 2001Last Supper at the Arabian Gray HorseDirector
  8. 2000Damn You! the MosquitoesDirector
  9. 1999The Lord's Lantern in BudapestDirector
  10. 1998Hősök tere - szubjektív történelmi mese IDirector
  11. 1996The Great Brain DeathDirector
  12. 1996Elmondták-e...?Director
  13. 1994Message of Stones: MáramarosDirector
  14. 1994Message of Stones: HegyaljaDirector
  15. 1994Message of Stones: BudapestDirector
  16. 1994Message of Stones - KárpátaljaDirector
  17. 1994Message of Stones - MoldovaDirector
  18. 1992The Blue Danube WaltzDirector
  19. 1991God Walks BackwardsDirector
  20. 1989Jesus Christ's HoroscopeDirector
  21. 1987Season of MonstersDirector
  22. 1986The DawnDirector
  23. 1986The Presence IIIDirector
  24. 1984MuzsikaDirector
  25. 1984Faustus Faustus FaustusDirector
  26. 1984Omega, Omega, OmegaDirector
  27. 1984Jancsó sukulaisten luonaDirector
  28. 1983BudapestDirector
  29. 1981The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in HungaryDirector
  30. 1979Allegro BarbaroDirector
  31. 1979Hungarian RhapsodyDirector
  32. 1978The Presence IIDirector
  33. 1977Laboratorio teatrale di Luca RonconiDirector
  34. 1976Private Vices, Public VirtuesDirector
  35. 1974Electra, My LoveDirector
  36. 1974Rome Wants Another CaesarDirector
  37. 1972The Technique and the RiteDirector
  38. 1972Red PsalmDirector
  39. 1971Agnus DeiDirector
  40. 1970The PacifistDirector
  41. 1969Winter WindDirector
  42. 1969The ConfrontationDirector
  43. 1969Decameron '69Director
  44. 1968Silence and CryDirector
  45. 1967The Red and the WhiteDirector
  46. 1967With a Camera in KostromaDirector
  47. 1966The Round-UpDirector
  48. 1965My Way HomeDirector
  49. 1965The PresenceDirector
  50. 1963CantataDirector
  51. 1962An Indian StoryDirector
  52. 1960Három csillagDirector
  53. 1960SalesmanshipDirector
  54. 1958A város pereménDirector
  55. 1958The Bells Have Gone to RomeDirector
  56. 1954Autumn in BadacsonyDirector
  57. 1953Harvest in OrosházaDirector
  58. 1952A 8. szabad május 1Director
  59. 1951A szovjet mezögazdasági küldöttek tanításaiDirector
  60. 1950We Took Over the Cause of PeaceDirector