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Red Psalm

Még kér a nép

Hungary

1972

87 Min
Color
1.37:1
Hungarian
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DIR Miklós Jancsó

SCR Gyula Hernádi

DP János Kende

CAST Andrea Drahota, Lajos Balázsovits, András Bálint, Gyöngyi Bürös, József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, Tibor Orbán, Bertalan Solti, Andrea Ajtony, András Ambrus, Zoltán Nagy, László Nagy

ED Zoltán Korda

PROD DES Tamás Banovich

MUSIC Tamás Cseh

Cannes (In Competition): Best Director, New York

Director

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Miklós Jancsó

A key figure in the development of the new Hungarian cinema, filmmaker Miklós Jancsó earned international recognition for his films Szegénylegények/The Round-Up (1965), Csillagosok Katonák/The Red and the White (1967), and Csend és Kiáltás/Silence and Cry (1968). These films best reflect Jancsó’s tendency toward abstraction and contain a distinctive combination of revolutionary viewpoints and highly structured, formal cinematic style. Imagery is more important than dialogue, which is used sparingly to encourage audiences to contemplate Jancsó’s underlying messages. The director tends to place actors in geometric patterns that mirror the landscapes around them.

Born in Vac, Hungary, Jancsó studied ethnography and art history while earning his law degree in 1944. He spent several years in Transylvania doing ethnographic research before enrolling in Budapest’s Academy of Dramatic and Film Art, where he graduated in 1950. Jancsó began filming numerous newsreels… read more

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Commie Bee

26Dec11

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Jon K

22Dec11

A beautiful film visually and aurally. Technically speaking, this is a film making master class. However, the plot doesn't really progress throughout and it gets a little repetitive after a while. It would have been nice if it had gone into some other aspects of revolution/rebellion rather than replaying the 'proletariats surrounded by oppressors' scenario over and over.

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lauli

6Jun11

Great film! Loved the use of music. It reminded me a bit of Russian Ark, though I still need to think of why.

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    Joshuah

    15Dec11

    hah! I just saw Russian Ark and it clearly reminded me of THIS film. Which I think added to my admiration for Ark. Both use extraneous long shots which involve the actors moving in and out of the frame as if it were Ballet. While Ark uses just one, I believe this film uses 28 or something... they still do come off quite similar in structure. Maybe both a little absent in narrative... still both incredible films.

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thesecretlivesofcats

17Mar10

Does the term "political musical," only apply to Jancso or is it a genre, maybe including Sergei Parajanov as well... Also, am I alone in thinking that with Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, Michael Cimino wanted to be the American Jancso?

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