Miklós Jancsó Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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