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Film Description
A triple bill of films from the celebrated Hungarian director. Contains My Way Home (1964), The Round-Up (1965) and The Red and the White (1967).
'My Way Home': in the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy is captured and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of Jancsó's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence and the arbitrary nature of power.
'The Red and the White' is a powerful anti-war film filmed in widescreen black and white grandeur. Staged on a huge canvas, this dramatization of an obscure incident during the Russian Civil War leaves us with profound impression of war as both chaotic and arbitrary. Miklos Jancso is arguably the key Hungarian film maker of the last 50 years and yet also one of the most criminally neglected. The Red & The White is a masterpiece that through its stylistic virtuosity, ritualistic power and sheer beauty portrays the utter futility of war.
'The Round-Up': a true masterwork of world cinema, set in the mid 19th century, when Austrian soldiers representing the triumphant Hapsburg empire trap and interrogate the Hungarian partisans whose revolt against the empire's rule has petered out. The cold, formal and distanced beauty of the film's choreography on the Hungarian plains make this an astounding work of art.
