The Round-Up
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.
Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nationalist uprising, the army sets about arresting suspected guerillas, who are subject to torture and other mental trickery in an effort to extract information about highwayman Sándor Rózsa’s band of outlaws, still waging armed struggle against the Hapsburgs on the outside. Jancsó’s camera stays in constant, hypnotic motion, taking in the developing dynamics and antagonisms between the prisoners and their captors, meditating upon and exalting its characters’ resistance and perseverance in the face of brutal, authoritarian repression. A true classic of world cinema.
“I have never really been exposed to such a sensibility in the camera movements before (…) and the ending of The Round-Up is one of the greatest summations of a picture ever created.” (Martin Scorsese, Cannes Film Festival, 2010)
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).
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The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
