Miklós Jancsó

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Miklós Jancsó (2000)

Miklós Jancsó [ ˈmikloːʃ ˈjɒnʧoː ] (born September 27, 1921 in Vác , Hungary ; † January 31, 2014 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter . He was one of the country's most important film directors, but is less known internationally than István Szabó . Many of his films' scripts were written in collaboration with the friend and writer Gyula Hernádi .

Life

Jancsó first studied law in Pécs and Kolozsvár , where he graduated in 1944. From 1946 to 1950 he graduated from the Budapest Academy of Drama and Film. After making short films for the newsreel in the 1950s , he turned to full-length feature films.

Jancsó was married three times, his second marriage to the film director Márta Mészáros . He became the father of four children.

Movies

Jancsó became internationally known in the 1960s as a representative of the Hungarian "New Wave" (with colleagues such as István Szabó and Károly Makk ). The main element of his cinematographic style was the plan sequence in which he filmed landscapes, especially the puszta . Other features of his distinctive style are crowds, horses and decoratively undressed women. Thematically, his films revolve around the suppression of powerless people, whose attempts to free themselves from their situation in a revolution fail. Jancsó was a staunch communist, but due to his experience with the Stalinist-ruled Hungary, he pursued the ideal of philanthropic socialism. His best-known films are The Hopeless (1965), Stars on the Hats (1967), Stille und Schrei (1968) and Red Psalm (1972). For the latter, he was awarded the prize for Best Director in Cannes . A year later he received the Étoile de Cristal in France for his complete works. In Hungary he was awarded the Kossuth-díj in 1973 and 2006 . Jancsó has made over eighty films. The interested international reception until the mid-1970s was followed by an almost complete lack of interest. He worked several times with the film editor Zoltán Farkas .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Jeancolas: Cinéma Hongrois 1963–1988 . Editions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04301-8
  • Bryan Burns: World cinema: Hungary. Flick Books, Wiltshire 1996, ISBN 0-948911-71-9
  • John Cunnigham: Hungarian Cinema. From coffee house to multiplex . Wallflower Press, London 2004, ISBN 1-903364-80-9
  • Film collective Frankfurt: Liberty of Cinema. The International (Co-) Productions of Miklós Jancsó. Filmkollektiv Frankfurt, Frankfurt 2015. ISBN 978-3-00-049766-7

Web links

Commons : Miklós Jancsó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danielle Dell'Agli: The Rhapsode the camera , NZZ , February 1, 2014 p 24
personal data
SURNAME Jancsó, Miklós
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vác , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2014
Place of death Budapest