So i came

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Movie
German title So i came
Original title Így jöttem
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian , Russian
Publishing year 1965
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Miklós Jancsó
script Gyula Hernádi ,
Imre Vadász
music Zoltán Jeney
camera Tamás Somló
cut Zoltan Farkas
occupation

This is how I came ( Így jöttem ) is a Hungarian film from 1965. It tells of the confused journey of a young Hungarian soldier back to his homeland. The director Miklós Jancsó has incorporated memories of his imprisonment with the Russians at the end of the Second World War. It is the first film in his oeuvre in which the characteristics of the style typical of Jancsó are largely present: figures isolated in front of vast landscapes, extended tracking shots, crane shots and long shots. So I came offers a gentle introduction to Jancsó's own universe. Nonetheless, his first mature work already requires attentive observation from the viewer, because Jancsó avoids a quick orientation about the protagonists, the place and the circumstances. The main role is played by András Kozák , whom Jancsó will use again and again in later films.

action

Towards the end of the Second World War, in an area that was only recently held by the Wehrmacht, the Red Army entered. Jóska, a 17-year-old Hungarian high school student who has been drafted, is on his way to his home country. He is tracked down by a squad of Soviet soldiers who comb the area and taken to a large group of prisoners of war. The commandant knows that Jóska is Hungarian, has no use for the student and lets him go. In a nest abandoned by the Germans, Jóska finds a Wehrmacht uniform jacket, puts it on and goes to sleep. When he is woken up, he looks into the gun barrels of a Soviet squad.

Again a prisoner of war, Jóska is assigned to an outpost. The Red Army soldier Kolja, who is about the same, is stationed there, guarding a herd of cows that have to be milked regularly. An off-road vehicle drives by every day, taking the jugs filled with milk and bringing the two young men a ration of food. Jóska soon tries to escape, during which Kolja can prevent him at the last moment from running into mined terrain. He gives up the escape plans first. While strolling aimlessly near the post, he meets a group of former Hungarian prisoners who come from a German camp. Because of his uniform, they take him for an SS man and harass him until Kolja rescues him from this situation. Although the Hungarian and the Russian do not understand each other linguistically, Jóska and Kolja gradually become friends. When a couple of women take a bath in a nearby body of water, the two run after the startled naked women until they lose their trail. The exuberance is clouded by Kolja's internal stomach injury, which causes him increasing pain and makes him sleepy. Jóska tries in vain to draw the passing military's attention to Kolja's situation. He manages to get a doctor to the post from a train of refugees, but when he gets there, Kolja has already died. Jóska leaves the post in Kolja's Soviet uniform and finds a railway line to the next train station, where he gets on a train heading home. On the same train, however, are the former camp inmates who recognize him, throw them out before departure and beat them up at the train station. After the train has left without him, he makes his way through the area again.

Criticism in film criticism

In the magazine Filmkritik Frieda Grafe and Enno Patalas noted : “The contradicting image of an epoch, the contradicting feelings of the people are visualized by Jancsó from the very detail, without any simplifications. This is the first of the Janscó films in which nature - it was shot entirely outdoors - gains a presence that is not mediated by action. When the camera pans upwards, the screen itself becomes the sky over the Puszta. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Pierre Jeancolas: Cinéma hongrois 1963–1988 . Editions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04301-8 , p. 92
  2. ^ Gordon Thomas: Dream Documents of Civil War . In: Bright Lights Film Journal , No. 60, May 2008
  3. ^ John Cunnigham: Hungarian Cinema. From coffee house to multiplex . Wallflower Press, London 2004, ISBN 1-903364-80-9 , pp. 100-101
  4. ^ William Lee: 5 films de Miklos Jancso , Dvd Classik, accessed November 8, 2009
  5. ^ Bryan Burns: World cinema: Hungary. Flick Books, Wiltshire 1996, ISBN 0-948911-71-9 , pp. 58-60
  6. ↑ Jeancolas 1989, p. 93 also speaks of the film of maturity.
  7. ^ Frieda Grafe, Enno Patalas: Hungarian Films 1963–1969 . In: Filmkritik , June 1969, p. 369