THE RED AND THE WHITE
Homage
DOUBLE FEATURE
Russia, 1918: In the course of the Civil War bloody skirmishes recur between Bolshevik and Tsarist troops along the banks of the Volga. The ascendancy of the Reds or the Whites seems to be shifting all the time, and likewise the roles of persecutors and victims. Power appears to exist only when exercised. Deadlock is out of the question. At the end a sparsely armed group of Hungarian revolutionaries, the Marseillaise on their lips, are marching towards the White troops by whom they are vastly outnumbered, and thus towards certain death. Thanks to his typical framing and camerawork Janscó masterfully dissects, as if from a great distance, the merciless atrocities of war.
CSILLAGOSOK, KATONÁK / STERNE AN DEN MÜTZEN
HUN, USSR 1967 / 92 min
Director: Miklós Jancsó
- Screenplay: Georgiy Mdivani,Gyula Hernádi,Miklós Jancsó
- Cinematographer: Tamás Somló
- Editor: Zoltán Farkas
- Cast: András Kozák,Tatyana Konyukhova,Krystyna Mikolajewska
- Producer: István Nemeskürty
- Production Company: Mafilm - Hungary,Mosfilm - USSR
DOUBLE FEATURE
Russia, 1918: In the course of the Civil War bloody skirmishes recur between Bolshevik and Tsarist troops along the banks of the Volga. The ascendancy of the Reds or the Whites seems to be shifting all the time, and likewise the roles of persecutors and victims. Power appears to exist only when exercised. Deadlock is out of the question. At the end a sparsely armed group of Hungarian revolutionaries, the Marseillaise on their lips, are marching towards the White troops by whom they are vastly outnumbered, and thus towards certain death. Thanks to his typical framing and camerawork Janscó masterfully dissects, as if from a great distance, the merciless atrocities of war.
Russia, 1918: In the course of the Civil War bloody skirmishes recur between Bolshevik and Tsarist troops along the banks of the Volga. The ascendancy of the Reds or the Whites seems to be shifting all the time, and likewise the roles of persecutors and victims. Power appears to exist only when exercised. Deadlock is out of the question. At the end a sparsely armed group of Hungarian revolutionaries, the Marseillaise on their lips, are marching towards the White troops by whom they are vastly outnumbered, and thus towards certain death. Thanks to his typical framing and camerawork Janscó masterfully dissects, as if from a great distance, the merciless atrocities of war.
- Screenplay: Georgiy Mdivani,Gyula Hernádi,Miklós Jancsó
- Cinematographer: Tamás Somló
- Editor: Zoltán Farkas
- Cast: András Kozák,Tatyana Konyukhova,Krystyna Mikolajewska
- Producer: István Nemeskürty
- Production Company: Mafilm - Hungary,Mosfilm - USSR