Miklós Jancsó Movies

An exploration of a decaying synagogue.

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead...

The first film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves...

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

Jancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the...

In a drama in which even Gad has a role as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state...

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he...

Socialist industry manufactures only those products absolutely required by workers, citizens purchase only those items essential for their everyday...

A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative...

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.

From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They...

A documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary.

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a military plant risk everything to strike in defiance,...