Image of Miklós Jancsó

Miklós Jancsó

Miklós Jancsó (27 September 1921 – 31 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up (Szegénylegények, 1965), The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák, 1967) and Red Psalm (Még kér a nép, 1971).  Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization, elegantly choreographed shots, long takes, historical periods, rural settings, and a lack of psychoanalyzing. A frequent theme of his films is the abuse of power. His works are often allegorical commentaries on Hungary under Communism and the Soviet occupation, although some critics prefer to stress the universal dimensions of Jancsó's explorations. Towards the end of the 1960s and especially into the 1970s, Jancsó's work became increasingly stylized and overtly symbolic. He received five nominations for the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. winning for Red Psalm in 1972. In 1973 he was awarded the prestigious Kossuth Prize in Hungary. He received awards for his life work in 1979 and 1990, at Cannes and Venice respectively. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miklós Jancsó, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Read bio at tmdb | Read bio at Wikipedia
Born:
Sep 27, 1921 In Vác, Hungary
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie The Lord's Lantern in Budapest 1999-01-28
Latest Project:
Movie Sodankylä Forever 2010-08-05
Known For
Poster of Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
Poster of Sticky Matters
Poster of Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
Poster of Damn You! the Mosquitoes
Filmography
Movie Sodankylä Forever Self 2010-08-05
Movie Negative history of Hungarian cinema Self 2010-01-01
Movie Ed's Eaten Elevenses Himself / Marcus Aurelius 2006-10-12
Movie Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep Himself 2003-02-06
Movie Sticky Matters Himself 2001-10-11
Movie Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse Himself 2001-02-15
Movie Damn You! the Mosquitoes Himself 2000-02-10
Movie The Lord's Lantern in Budapest Himself 1999-01-28