Miklós Jancsó was born in 1921 in Vác, Hungary. 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 incl... (Full Biography Below)
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Miklós Jancsó was born in 1921 in Vác, Hungary. 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 (poor lads, 1965), The Red and the White (Csillagosok, soldiers, 1967) and Red Psalm (Even ask the people, 1971). Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization, elegantly choreographer shots, long takes, historical period, and rural settings, and a lack of psychoanalyzing. The frequent theme of his films is the abuse of power. His works are often allegorical commentarii on Hungary under more 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 becase of increasingly stylized and overtly symbolic. He received five nomination for the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. winning for Red Psalm in 1972. In 1973 he was awarded the prestigio of the Kossuth Prize in Hungary. He received awards for his life work in 1979 and 1990, at Cannes and Venice respectively.
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