Miklós Jancsó
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-09-27
Day of Death
2014-01-31 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Vác, Hungary
Miklós Jancsó
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2010)
(2010)
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
(2009)
A Kádár-korszak demokratikus ellenzéke
as Himself
(2006)
Ed's Eaten Elevenses
as Himself / Marcus Aurelius
(2003)
Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
as Miklós Jancsó
(2002)
Jancsó Shoots
as Himself
(2002)
(2001)
Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
as Himself
(2001)
Sticky Matters
as Himself
(2000)
Damn You! the Mosquitoes
as Miklós Jancsó
(1999)
The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
as Himself
Crew
(2012)
Hungary 2011
Director, Writer
(2010)
So Much for Justice!
Director, Screenplay
(2006)
Ed's Eaten Elevenses
Director, Writer
(2004)
The Battle of Mohács
Director, Writer
(2003)
Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
Director, Writer
(2001)
Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
Director, Writer
(2000)
Damn You! the Mosquitoes
Director, Writer
(1999)
The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
Director, Writer
(1998)
(1996)
Elmondták-e...?
Director
(1996)
The Great Brain Death
Director
(1994)
Message of Stones - Budapest
Director
(1994)
Message of Stones - Máramaros
Director
(1994)
Message of Stones - Hegyalja
Director
(1994)
Message of Stones - Moldova
Director
(1994)
Message of Stones - Kárpátalja
Director
(1992)
The Blue Danube Waltz
Director, Writer
(1991)
God Walks Backwards
Director, Screenplay
(1989)
Jesus Christ's Horoscope
Director, Writer
(1987)
Season of Monsters
Director
(1986)
The Presence III
Director
(1986)
The Dawn
Director, Writer
(1984)
Faustus Faustus Faustus
Director
(1984)
Muzsika
Director
(1984)
Omega, Omega, Omega
Director
(1983)
Budapest
Director
(1981)
The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
Director, Writer
(1980)
Das Lied
Cinematography
(1979)
Hungarian Rhapsody
Director, Writer
(1979)
Allegro Barbaro
Director, Writer
(1978)
The Presence II
Director
(1977)
(1976)
Private Vices, Public Virtues
Writer, Director
(1974)
Electra, My Love
Director
(1974)
Rome Wants Another Caesar
Director, Story, Writer, Producer
(1972)
Red Psalm
Director
(1972)
The Technique and the Rite
Director, Writer
(1971)
Agnus Dei
Director, Writer
(1970)
The Pacifist
Director
(1969)
Decameron '69
Director
(1969)
The Confrontation
Writer, Director
(1969)
Winter Wind
Director, Writer
(1968)
Silence and Cry
Director, Writer
(1967)
The Red and the White
Director, Writer
(1967)
With a Camera in Kostroma
Director
(1966)
The Round-Up
Director
(1965)
My Way Home
Director
(1965)
The Presence
Director
(1963)
Cantata
Director, Screenplay
(1963)
Encounter
Editor
(1962)
An Indian Story
Director
(1960)
Három csillag
Director
(1958)
The Bells Have Gone to Rome
Director
(1954)
Autumn in Badacsony
Director
(1953)
Harvest in Orosháza
Director
(1952)
A 8. szabad május 1
Director
(1951)
(1950)
We Took Over the Cause of Peace
Director, Writer