Allegro Barbaro (film)

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Movie
German title Allegro Barbaro
Original title Allegro Barbaro
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 1979
length 73 minutes
Rod
Director Miklós Jancsó
script Gyula Hernádi
Miklós Jancsó
camera János Kende
cut Zsuzsa Csákány
occupation

Allegro Barbaro is a Hungarian historical drama by Miklós Jancsó from 1979. After Hungarian Rhapsody, it represents the second part of a planned cycle, the third part of which Concerto was never shot. The title gives the composition Allegro Barbaro by Béla Bartók . The plot of both films is inspired by the life of Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky . The first part ends in the mid-twenties, when the protagonist had doubts about his previous actions, and this is where Allegro Barbaro begins . Occasional fantastic elements mix into the realistic narrative tone, increasing towards the end. The film consists of 22 takes.

action

Istvan and his brother Gábor led the White Terror against the Communists in Hungary. But he loves Mari, the daughter of a peasant leader Bankós, which brings him closer to the left revolutionaries politically.

Istvan becomes estranged from his brother and his previous friends. Bankós, however, distrusts Istvan's affection for Mari and suspects an intrigue. When Mari was arrested for agitation in 1944, he went to the conservative prime minister's estate and tried to mediate between him and Bankós. After Bankós was arrested, he temporarily managed to get him released. Mari and Istvan celebrate their wedding on his estate, which is interrupted by the Prime Minister's troops occupying the estate. They kill Bankós, whereupon Istvan kills the prime minister. Gabór becomes the new Prime Minister. A fabricated charge against Mari causes Istvan to approach Gabór, who remains tough. Mari is denied her last wish to sleep with Istvan one more time, and only granted two other convicted men. After Mari's murder, Istvan soon appears with a flag and parachutists come down from the sky. In the end, almost the entire film turns out to be imaginary, and Istvan and Mari are reunited.

literature

  • William Kelly: Allegro Barbaro . In: Film Quarterly , vol. 34, no. 1 (autumn 1980), pp. 47–53 (English)
  • Bryan Burns: World cinema: Hungary. Flick Books, Wiltshire 1996, ISBN 0-948911-71-9 , pp. 68-69 (English)

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