Miklós Jancsó Movies

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

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students.

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.

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

Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of novellas known as The Decameron, this innovative film combines short works from seven...

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...

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

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want...

A documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary.

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...

A celebration of the culture and the ancient traditions in Badacsony.

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

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

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,...