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...

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...

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,...

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

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 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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...