Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó [ Miklos ː ʃ jɒnʧo ː ] ( born September 27, 1921 in Vac, Hungary, † January 31, 2014 in Budapest) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most important film directors in the country, but is less well known internationally as István Szabó. Many screenplays of his films made in collaboration with his friend and writer Gyula Hernádi.
Life
Jancsó first studied law in Pécs and Kolozsvár, where he also graduated in 1944. 1946 to 1950 he studied at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. After he had made short films for the newsreel in the 1950s, he turned to the full-length feature film.
Jancsó was married three times, his second wife, the film director Márta Mészáros. He was the father of four children.
Movies
Became internationally known Jancsó in the 1960s, as the representative of the Hungarian "New Wave" ( with colleagues such as István Szabó Károly Makk and ). The main element of his cinematographic style formed the plan sequence in which he, in particular landscapes filmed the Puszta. Other features of its distinctive style are crowds, horses and decorative solid women. Thematic his films revolve around the suppression of an impotent man whose attempts to free himself in a revolution of its location fail. Jancsó was a convinced Communist, but because of his experience with the Stalinist- ruled Hungary, he pursued the ideal of a humane socialism. His best-known films are The Hopeless (1965 ), stars on their caps (1967 ), Silence and Cry (1968) and Red Psalm (1972). For the latter him the award for Best Director at Cannes was awarded. A year later he received in France the Étoile de Cristal for his oeuvre. In Hungary, he was awarded in 1973 and 2006 with the Kossuth díj. Jancsó has made over eighty films. On the interested international reception until the mid- 1970s was followed by an almost complete lack of interest.