Miklós Jancsó Movies

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...

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 collective film made by ten prominent Hungarian filmmakers to express what each of them wishes to bring with them of their own culture and personal...

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

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

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...

The movie addresses the anti-fascist theme taken from a moral perspective. The movie tells the story of a group of teenagers who were drafted to the...

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

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...

Socialist industry manufactures only those products absolutely required by workers, citizens purchase only those items essential for their everyday...

In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves...