Red Psalm
The filmmaker Miklós Jancsó, described by his compatriot Béla Tarr as “the greatest Hungarian director”, takes the spotlight with the new restoration of six key works from his filmography. “The master of long takes” as Martin Scorsese still calls him, made a handful of extraordinary films between the mid-60s and the 70s, most of which are stages in the filming of the Hungarian historical narrative, from the Habsburg Empire until the end of the Second World War.
Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó (27 September 1921 – 31 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including The Round-Up (Szegénylegények, 1965), The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák, 1967), and Red Psalm (Még kér a nép, 1971).
