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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1974 • A virtuoso, 12-take interpretation of Greek myth.

Miklós Jancsó’s richly inventive adaptation of the two-thousand-year-old Greek myth. Reflecting attitudes towards tyranny and dictatorship from the modern man’s perspective, the original play's fr...

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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1967 • A wartime thriller and winner of Best Director at Cannes 1972.

1890s, the Hungarian plains. A group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner. They are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals which spi...

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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1968 • The virtuoso vision of a master at the peak of his powers.

Paralleling the dramatic student demonstrations that were exploding across the world in the 1960s, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion. Miklós Jancsó’s first color film i...

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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1967 • A magnificent formal investigation of war.

Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites engage in murderous entanglements in the hills along the Volga. This epic conflict moves with...

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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1966 • A hypnotic, dazzling vision of war.

Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth’s nationalist uprising, the army sets...

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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1969

In the mid-1930s, a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia, crossing the dense forests at that country's Northern border in an effort to seek refuge in Hungary.

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