Miklós Jancsó Movies

An exploration of a decaying synagogue.

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which...

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...

Miklós Jancsó makes fun of his reputation for creating exceptional visuals in "A nagy agyhalál AKA The Great Brain Death." It is...

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...

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes...

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

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...

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...

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.

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

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German...

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

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

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

A mix of documentary and essay about Hősök tere (Heroes' Square) in Budapest.

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

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film focuses on three eras...

A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative...