Miklós Jancsó (1921-2014)

Alias:
미클로스 얀크소
Jancsó Miklós
Миклош Янчо
米克洛什·扬索
미클로슈 얀초
미클로시 얀초
얀초 미클로슈
얀초 미클로시

Birthplace:
Vác, Hungary

Born:
September 27, 1921

Died:
January 31, 2014

Miklós Jancsó (27 September 1921 – 31 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up (Szegénylegények, 1965), The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák, 1967) and Red Psalm (Még kér a nép, 1971).  Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization, elegantly choreographed shots, long takes, historical periods, rural settings, and a lack of psychoanalyzing. A frequent theme of his films is the abuse of power. His works are often allegorical commentaries on Hungary under Communism and the Soviet occupation, although some critics prefer to stress the universal dimensions of Jancsó's explorations. Towards the end of the 1960s and especially into the 1970s, Jancsó's work became increasingly stylized and overtly symbolic.  He received five nominations for the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. winning for Red Psalm in 1972. In 1973 he was awarded the prestigious Kossuth Prize in Hungary. He received awards for his life work in 1979 and 1990, at Cannes and Venice respectively.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Miklós Jancsó, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Cinematography:
1980  Das Lied

Director:
1950  We Took Over the Cause of Peace
1951  A szovjet mezögazdasági küldöttek tanításai
1952  A 8. szabad május 1
1953  Harvest in Orosháza
1954  Autumn in Badacsony
1958  The Bells Have Gone to Rome
1960  Három csillag
1962  An Indian Story
1963  Cantata
1965  My Way Home
1965  The Presence
1966  The Round-Up
1967  The Red and the White
1967  With a Camera in Kostroma
1968  Silence and Cry
1969  Decameron '69
1969  The Confrontation
1969  Winter Wind
1970  The Pacifist
1971  Agnus Dei
1972  Red Psalm
1972  The Technique and the Rite
1974  Electra, My Love
1974  Rome Wants Another Caesar
1976  Private Vices, Public Virtues
1977  Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi
1978  The Presence II
1979  Allegro Barbaro
1979  Hungarian Rhapsody
1980  Das Lied
1981  The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
1983  Budapest
1984  Faustus Faustus Faustus
1984  Muzsika
1984  Omega, Omega, Omega
1986  The Dawn
1986  The Presence III
1987  Season of Monsters
1989  Jesus Christ's Horoscope
1991  God Walks Backwards
1992  The Blue Danube Waltz
1994  Message of Stones - Budapest
1994  Message of Stones - Hegyalja
1994  Message of Stones - Kárpátalja
1994  Message of Stones - Moldova
1994  Message of Stones - Máramaros
1996  Elmondták-e...?
1996  The Great Brain Death
1999  The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
2000  Damn You! the Mosquitoes
2001  Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
2003  Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
2004  The Battle of Mohács
2006  Ed's Eaten Elevenses
2010  So Much for Justice!
2012  Hungary 2011

Editor:
1950  We Took Over the Cause of Peace
1951  A szovjet mezögazdasági küldöttek tanításai
1952  A 8. szabad május 1
1953  Harvest in Orosháza
1954  Autumn in Badacsony
1958  The Bells Have Gone to Rome
1960  Három csillag
1962  An Indian Story
1963  Cantata
1963  Encounter
1965  My Way Home
1965  The Presence
1966  The Round-Up
1967  The Red and the White
1967  With a Camera in Kostroma
1968  Silence and Cry
1969  Decameron '69
1969  The Confrontation
1969  Winter Wind
1970  The Pacifist
1971  Agnus Dei
1972  Red Psalm
1972  The Technique and the Rite
1974  Electra, My Love
1974  Rome Wants Another Caesar
1976  Private Vices, Public Virtues
1977  Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi
1978  The Presence II
1979  Allegro Barbaro
1979  Hungarian Rhapsody
1980  Das Lied
1981  The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
1983  Budapest
1984  Faustus Faustus Faustus
1984  Muzsika
1984  Omega, Omega, Omega
1986  The Dawn
1986  The Presence III
1987  Season of Monsters
1989  Jesus Christ's Horoscope
1991  God Walks Backwards
1992  The Blue Danube Waltz
1994  Message of Stones - Budapest
1994  Message of Stones - Hegyalja
1994  Message of Stones - Kárpátalja
1994  Message of Stones - Moldova
1994  Message of Stones - Máramaros
1996  Elmondták-e...?
1996  The Great Brain Death
1999  The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
2000  Damn You! the Mosquitoes
2001  Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
2003  Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
2004  The Battle of Mohács
2006  Ed's Eaten Elevenses
2010  So Much for Justice!
2012  Hungary 2011

Screenplay:
1950  We Took Over the Cause of Peace
1951  A szovjet mezögazdasági küldöttek tanításai
1952  A 8. szabad május 1
1953  Harvest in Orosháza
1954  Autumn in Badacsony
1958  The Bells Have Gone to Rome
1960  Három csillag
1962  An Indian Story
1963  Cantata
1963  Encounter
1965  My Way Home
1965  The Presence
1966  The Round-Up
1967  The Red and the White
1967  With a Camera in Kostroma
1968  Silence and Cry
1969  Decameron '69
1969  The Confrontation
1969  Winter Wind
1970  The Pacifist
1971  Agnus Dei
1972  Red Psalm
1972  The Technique and the Rite
1974  Electra, My Love
1974  Rome Wants Another Caesar
1976  Private Vices, Public Virtues
1977  Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi
1978  The Presence II
1979  Allegro Barbaro
1979  Hungarian Rhapsody
1980  Das Lied
1981  The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
1983  Budapest
1984  Faustus Faustus Faustus
1984  Muzsika
1984  Omega, Omega, Omega
1986  The Dawn
1986  The Presence III
1987  Season of Monsters
1989  Jesus Christ's Horoscope
1991  God Walks Backwards
1992  The Blue Danube Waltz
1994  Message of Stones - Budapest
1994  Message of Stones - Hegyalja
1994  Message of Stones - Kárpátalja
1994  Message of Stones - Moldova
1994  Message of Stones - Máramaros
1996  Elmondták-e...?
1996  The Great Brain Death
1999  The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
2000  Damn You! the Mosquitoes
2001  Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
2003  Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
2004  The Battle of Mohács
2006  Ed's Eaten Elevenses
2010  So Much for Justice!
2012  Hungary 2011

Writer:
1950  We Took Over the Cause of Peace
1951  A szovjet mezögazdasági küldöttek tanításai
1952  A 8. szabad május 1
1953  Harvest in Orosháza
1954  Autumn in Badacsony
1958  The Bells Have Gone to Rome
1960  Három csillag
1962  An Indian Story
1963  Cantata
1963  Encounter
1965  My Way Home
1965  The Presence
1966  The Round-Up
1967  The Red and the White
1967  With a Camera in Kostroma
1968  Silence and Cry
1969  Decameron '69
1969  The Confrontation
1969  Winter Wind
1970  The Pacifist
1971  Agnus Dei
1972  Red Psalm
1972  The Technique and the Rite
1974  Electra, My Love
1974  Rome Wants Another Caesar
1976  Private Vices, Public Virtues
1977  Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi
1978  The Presence II
1979  Allegro Barbaro
1979  Hungarian Rhapsody
1980  Das Lied
1981  The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
1983  Budapest
1984  Faustus Faustus Faustus
1984  Muzsika
1984  Omega, Omega, Omega
1986  The Dawn
1986  The Presence III
1987  Season of Monsters
1989  Jesus Christ's Horoscope
1991  God Walks Backwards
1992  The Blue Danube Waltz
1994  Message of Stones - Budapest
1994  Message of Stones - Hegyalja
1994  Message of Stones - Kárpátalja
1994  Message of Stones - Moldova
1994  Message of Stones - Máramaros
1996  Elmondták-e...?
1996  The Great Brain Death
1999  The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
2000  Damn You! the Mosquitoes
2001  Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse
2003  Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
2004  The Battle of Mohács
2006  Ed's Eaten Elevenses
2010  So Much for Justice!
2012  Hungary 2011

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