The hopeless
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The hopeless |
| Original title | Szegénylegények |
| Country of production | Hungary |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miklós Jancsó |
| script |
Gyula Hernádi Miklós Jancsó |
| camera | Tamás Somló |
| cut | Zoltan Farkas |
| occupation | |
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In Miklós Jancsó's feature film from 1966 , the hopeless are Hungarian rebels captured in a fortress of the Austro-Hungarian army. Szegénylegények , the original title of the Hungarian film, was called Die Männer in der Todesschanze in the GDR . He addresses persecution and oppression and made the director known worldwide.
action
Around 1869 in the Puszta . A group of captured rebels is locked up in a fortress . One of them is ordered into a dark, narrow room. After various doors and gates have closed and opened and he has to change rooms several times, an officer explains to him that he is free and shows him the way out into the wide plain. He walks out into the plain until someone shoots him. An inspector interrogates János Gajdor because two farmers have been killed. He locks him up until Gajdor confesses to the crime and further murders. The inspector explains to Gajdor that if he finds someone among the rebels who has killed even more people, he will be freed.
One of the rebels killed six people, but because he can only name three of them, Gajdor is forced to keep looking. He reports Veszelka, whom the inspectors force to watch a woman run the gauntlet and die in the process. Veszelka and other men kill themselves. Gajdor continues to search, but makes himself hated and is found dead in his cell. An officer suspects and interrogates Kabai and his son without finding out anything, and he gets stuck with a man named Torma. These three men have to wait while the officers recruit prisoners for the troops. Eventually an officer appears and asks Torma if he ever served in an army. Torma and Kabai can demonstrate their riding skills on horses. Torma is entrusted with the task of forming a unit with selected recruited soldiers that consists of former members of the rebel army. A messenger declares that the former leader of the rebels has been pardoned, but that this does not apply to the soldiers who fought under him. The whole unit is captured.
criticism
The film service saw Jancsó's humanistic attitude in all parts of the film, which captivates with its haunting visual language. The stylization lifts the work “away from the level of historical costume films and into the typical”. In the film review, Peter W. Jansen commented : “The film is not noisy Storm against Terror, Oppression and Brutality, it does not appeal to quick indignation, to the emotion of the good. He has a more skeptical opinion of the good, and this is the only way he can register the greatest humiliation of man: the corruption of the victims. "
Web links
- The hopeless in the Internet Movie Database (English)