Screenplay: Miklós Jancsó

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Miklós Jancsó. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Red and the White

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast József Madaras · Tibor Molnár · András Kozák · Jácint Juhász

Plot In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives...

7.2

600 votes

7.2

600 votes

Silence and Cry

1967 · Movie · 73 min. · Hungary

6.7

94 votes

6.7

94 votes

Cantata

1963 · Movie · 94 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Zoltán Latinovits · Andor Ajtay · Béla Barsi · Miklós Szakáts

Plot In this work, influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni, Jancsó created the unique visual style by which he became known - the mesmerizing, sweeping, ballet-like camera movement, which emphasize the relation between...

6.6

45 votes

6.6

45 votes

The Confrontation

1969 · Movie · 82 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Andrea Drahota · Kati Kovács · Lajos Balázsovits · András Kozák

Plot This feature follows the student unrest that gripped Hungary in the wake of the 1947 socialist revolution. Scores of students are now able to attend college. Students march in an...

6.3

52 votes

6.3

52 votes

The Pacifist

1970 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

5.2

31 votes

5.2

31 votes

Private Vices and Public Virtues

1976 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Lajos Balázsovits · Pamela Villoresi · Franco Branciaroli · Teresa Ann Savoy

Plot 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...

5.1

148 votes

5.1

148 votes

Dawn

1986 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Serge Avedikian · Paul Blain · Christine Boisson · Philippe Léotard

Plot In a drama in which even God has a role (Philippe Leotard) as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time...

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The Tyrant's Heart

1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Hungary

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Sirokkó

1970 · Movie · 80 min. · France

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Hungary 2011

2012 · Movie · 75 min. · Hungary

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The Blue Danube Waltz

1992 · Movie · 90 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó · István Márton

Cast György Cserhalmi · József Madaras · Ildikó Bánsági · Dorottya Udvaros

Plot American co-production money notwithstanding, this is an uncompromising statement of political disillusionment in the new post-communist Hungary. Former dissident Cserhalmi is about to be co-opted into the regime of the...

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Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál

2002 · Movie · 85 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó · István Márton

Cast Ildikó Tóth · Zoltán Mucsi · Péter Scherer · András Hajós

Plot The fourth film in Pepe and Kapo series.

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Allegro barbaro

1979 · Movie · 73 min. · Hungary

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Let's Love One Another...

1996 · Movie · 94 min. · Hungary

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Mother! The Mosquitoes

2000 · Movie · 80 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó · István Márton

Cast Zoltán Mucsi · Péter Scherer · Emese Vasvári · Márta Balogh

Plot Child of Kapa appears, and wants the grandfather's fake money. After Kapa gets into the invisible wall, he kills his son, and doesn't feel any sorrow, but he blinds.

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So Much for Justice!

2010 · Movie · 86 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Kornél Mundruczó · Zoltán Mucsi · György Cserhalmi

Plot Managed to get onto the second party of the Mátyás [*Matthias] era, the peak of his power for a king's reign, and through this for Hungary's hey-day short one and...

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Ede megevé ebédem

2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó · István Márton

Cast Zoltán Mucsi · Péter Scherer · Lajos Balázsovits · Eszter Csépai

Plot Kapa and Pepe contemplates the Hungarian capitalism of today. The power belongs to those with money.

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Agnus Dei

1971 · Movie · 84 min. · Hungary

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast József Madaras · Daniel Olbrychski · Mark Zala · Lajos Balázsovits

Plot Alegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha,...

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Hungarian Rhapsody

1979 · Movie · 103 min. · Hungary

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