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Miklós Jancsó Born in 1921 in Vác, Hungarian director and screenwriter, one of the most outstanding figures in the European cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. He studied the history of art, law and ethnography and then directing at the Theatre and Film School. 
Involved in the communist party, he took part in the agricultural reform and he depicted his experience in Sparkling Winds (Fényes szelek, 1968). Before his feature debut, he made dozens of documentaries. He earned international fame with The Round-Up (Szegénylegények, 1965) and The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák, 1967) where he developed the original poetics of long shots, sophisticated motion of actors and expressive cinematography (in those times, his closest collaborator was the cinematographer Tamás Somló). The themes he explored included a philosophical analysis of history, displaying a weak human suffering humiliation from the anonymous system. He guarded his aesthetical originality also in his later films, many of which were made in Italy: The Pacifist (La pacifista, 1970), La tecnica e il rito (Technique and rite 1971). He was very successful both with films exploring contemporary issues and history: depictions of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in Silence and Cry (Csend és kiáltás, 1968) and Agnus dei (Égi bárány, 1970). Metaphors of his subsequent films became more and more allegorical, like folk stories, myths and para-theatrical performance. He is still active; lately, critics liked his Season of Monsters (Szörnyek évadja, 1986), Anyád! A szúnyogok (Damn You! The Mosquitoes (2000), Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse (Utolsó vacsora az Arabs Szürkénél, 2001), Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál, 2003). In 1979 he obtained the life's work award at the festival in Cannes, and a similar prize in Venice in 1987. He is still regarded as one of the most original filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s; he has also influenced such directors as Theo Angelopoulos and Béla Tarr. Selected filmography: 1958 A harangok Rómába mentek / The Bells Have Gone to Rome 1965 Így jöttem / My Way Home 1966 Szegénylegények / The Round-Up 1966 Közelröl: a vér / Close Up: The Blood 1967 Csillagosok, katonák / The Red and the White 1967 Csend és kiáltás / Silence and Cry 1969 Fényes szelek / Sparkling Winds 1969 Sirokkó / Winter Wind 1970 Égi bárány / Agnus dei 1970 La pacifista / The Pacifist 1972 Még kér a nép / Red Psalm 1974 Szerelmem, Elektra / Electra, My Love 1974 Roma rivuole Cesare / Rome Wants Another Caesar 1976 Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù / Vices and Pleasures 1979 Magyar rapszódia / Hungarian Rhapsody 1981 A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon / The Tyrant’s Heart 1985 L’aube / Dawn 1987 Szörnyek évadja / Season of Monsters 1988 Jézus Krisztus horoszkópja / Jesus Christ’s Horoscope 1991 Isten hátrafelé megy / God Walks Backwards 1992 Kék Duna keringö / Blue Danube Waltz 1996 Szeressük egymást, gyerekek! 1999 Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr, Pesten / Lord’s Lantern in Budapest 2001 Utolsó vacsora az Arabs Szürkénél / Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse 2002 Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál / Wake Up, Mate, Don’t You Sleep 2006 Ede megevé ebédem 2009 Oda az igazság
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