Private Vices, Public Pleasures (1976)
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate His wife departs at the arri
My Way Home (1965)
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen year old boy wanders the countryside He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more after he has donned a German uniform for warmth and imprisoned at a remote ba
Red Psalm (1972)
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence
The Round Up (1966)
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re established, but partisans carry on with violent actions In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them
The Pacifist (1970)
A journalist is preparing a story on extremist youth and falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination
Electra, My Love (1974)
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektras mother to kill him
The Confrontation (1969)
It is 1947 the Communist Party has just taken power in Hungary In Jancsos first color film, young students at a Peoples College have a debate with seminary students, but worry it will escalate into a fight
Indiantortenet (1962)
The Indian Story is the kind of newsreel short subjects that Jancso made early in his career, and while it doesnt bear any of his hallmarks as a director, its still interesting an examination of the way that Native Americans wer
The Red and the White (1967)
During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army aided by Hungarian Communists and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga