Miklós Jancsó

Hungary 2011 (2012)

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

So Much for Justice! (2010)

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film focuses on three eras of the king's life: the young Mátyás fights for the throne, the older Mátyás as king, and the fate of the royal crown ...

Ed's Eaten Elevenses (2006)

Jancsó's farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the father-in-law rolling in money. In a joint venture they establish the first Hungarian Prison Limited company, where there is a ...

The Battle of Mohács (2004)

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he realizes the invention relying on "special" H2O. Kapa and Pepe shall return by it into the past in order to set time ...

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular epi ...

Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse (2001)

Waiters' competition at Heroes' Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe awake in the bronze chariot of the millennial sculpture group. They drive along the Danube promenade, and on the concrete reinforcement of the demolished Budapes ...

Damn You! the Mosquitoes (2000)

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want to get from grandpa, who has come home from America with a suitcase full of money. Everybody wants Mesi to ...

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

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 they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim ...

The Great Brain Death (1996)

Miklós Jancsó makes fun of his reputation for creating exceptional visuals in "A nagy agyhalál AKA The Great Brain Death." It is the most difficult vignette and while visually stunning, remains difficult to decipher, she breaks with allegorical storytel ...

Elmondták-e...? (1996)

Message of Stones - Budapest (1994)

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

Message of Stones - Máramaros (1994)

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

Message of Stones - Hegyalja (1994)

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

Message of Stones - Moldova (1994)

Message of Stones - Kárpátalja (1994)

The Blue Danube Waltz (1992)

When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This compelling political thriller uncovers two prime suspects: the woman who guns the leader down, and a man who wa ...

God Walks Backwards (1991)

From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They enjoy the company of the Kid and the beautiful naked French girl, Nathalie. Their job is to watch the monit ...

Jesus Christ's Horoscope (1989)

A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition as he – through visually fascinating imagery – depicts the pain ...

Season of Monsters (1987)

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 note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz. The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi join the police in in ...

The Dawn (1986)

In a drama in which even Gad has a role as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state of Israel was created and established, a British officer has been captured by a band of Jewish resistance ...

The Presence III (1986)

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 honey, drink wine, pray, and sing. ...

Muzsika (1984)

Omega, Omega, Omega (1984)

The film the was made of OMEGA band's November 1982 concert in the Budapest Sportstadium. ...

Faustus Faustus Faustus (1984)

A nine-part miniseries by Miklós Jancsó which played at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1984. ...

Budapest (1983)

The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary (1981)

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

Das Lied (1980)

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 to take charge of her inheritance, a small house with a garden full of childhood memories. ...

Allegro Barbaro (1979)

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old ...

Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)

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

The Presence II (1978)

An exploration of a decaying synagogue. ...

Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi (1977)

A documentary about director Luca Ronconi. He is asked about his life and his choice to devote himself to theater and in particular, at that precise moment in his career, to undertake the production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Calderon as part of the Prato th ...

Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)

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 time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and ...

Electra, My Love (1974)

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 mother to kill him. ...

Rome Wants Another Caesar (1974)

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

The Technique and the Rite (1972)

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 the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional ( ...

Red Psalm (1972)

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, oppression, morality and violence. ...

Agnus Dei (1971)

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 the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented ...

The Pacifist (1970)

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 commit a political assassination. ...

Winter Wind (1969)

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

The Confrontation (1969)

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students. ...

Decameron '69 (1969)

Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of novellas known as The Decameron, this innovative film combines short works from seven directors who set out to interpret Boccaccio's masterwork for the modern age. The result is an assortment of t ...

Silence and Cry (1968)

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-re ...

The Red and the White (1967)

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. ...

With a Camera in Kostroma (1967)

The Round-Up (1966)

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the ...

My Way Home (1965)

In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp. ...

The Presence (1965)

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

Cantata (1963)

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

Encounter (1963)

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 uses documentary techniques in a fiction context to make the frailty of everyday life as palpable as possib ...

An Indian Story (1962)

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian. ...

Három csillag (1960)

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a military plant risk everything to strike in defiance, displaying unwavering courage and solidarity. 2. During a fierce battle, three Soviet soldiers shelter in ...

The Bells Have Gone to Rome (1958)

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 front in the last weeks of World War II and found refuge on a small island. ...

Autumn in Badacsony (1954)

A celebration of the culture and the ancient traditions in Badacsony. ...

Harvest in Orosháza (1953)

A 8. szabad május 1 (1952)

A szovjet mezögazdasági küldöttek tanításai (1951)

We Took Over the Cause of Peace (1950)

One of the earliest works of the outstanding Hungarian director Miklós Jancso was filmed by him in collaboration with Dezho Koza and Gyula Meszáros as a documentary short film dedicated to the propaganda of building socialism in Hungary. ...

Sodankylä Forever (2010)

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

Negative history of Hungarian cinema (2010)

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors. ...

A Kádár-korszak demokratikus ellenzéke (2009)

A documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary. ...

Ed's Eaten Elevenses (2006)

Jancsó's farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the father-in-law rolling in money. In a joint venture they establish the first Hungarian Prison Limited company, where there is a ...

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular epi ...

Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról (2002)

Jancsó Shoots (2002)

A making-of documentary shot on the set of Miklós Jancsó's 2003 film "Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep". ...

Sticky Matters (2001)

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 is prepared to surrender his whole personality. The boy has a good friend, who is not sure whether their bon ...

Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse (2001)

Waiters' competition at Heroes' Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe awake in the bronze chariot of the millennial sculpture group. They drive along the Danube promenade, and on the concrete reinforcement of the demolished Budapes ...

Damn You! the Mosquitoes (2000)

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want to get from grandpa, who has come home from America with a suitcase full of money. Everybody wants Mesi to ...

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

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 they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim ...