Miklós Jancsó Movies

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.

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...

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

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...

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...

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans...

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just...

When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This...

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt,...

János Kovácsi's film is an ironic portrayal of a day in the life of a beautiful German woman in her prime who arrives at Lake Balaton...

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to...

The second film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children, and stand by as the children dip bread in...

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's...

The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares...

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

A girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love with the girl. His emotions are so powerful that he...

One of the earliest works of the outstanding Hungarian director Miklós Jancso was filmed by him in collaboration with Dezho Koza and Gyula...