Red psalm

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Movie
German title Red psalm
Original title Még kér a nép
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 1972
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Miklós Jancsó
script Gyula Hernádi
Miklós Jancsó
music Tamás Cseh
camera János Kende
cut Zoltan Farkas
occupation

Red Psalm ( Még kér a nép ) is a Hungarian film from 1972 directed by Miklós Jancsó . He was awarded the Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year .

action

The film hardly has a distinct plot. At the end of the 19th century, farmers living in the Hungarian Puszta rebelled against the low prices they get for their wheat. In retaliation for the death of a landowner - for which the farmers were not directly responsible - a noblewoman had troops deployed against the farmers. Some of the soldiers desert and ally with the farmers. During the night the insurgents burn the rifles, hold the pastor prisoner in the church and set them on fire. The next day new troops arrive and defeat the farmers. However, the dead rise and a peasant woman shoots all soldiers with a pistol.

criticism

John Cunnigham wrote in a monograph on Hungarian cinema : “Although the visual beauty of the film and its choreography cannot be denied, the Red Psalm looks very dated, like a museum exhibit of the left-wing agit-prop film of the late 1960s and 1970s -Years. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Cunnigham: Hungarian Cinema. From coffee house to multiplex . Wallflower Press, London 2004, ISBN 1-903364-80-9 , p. 123