Red Psalm
New York Film Festival Essentials
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1h 26m
Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Drama • 1972 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring József Madaras, Tibor Orbán, Jácint Juhász
Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972 and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 70s, Miklós Jancsó's masterpiece set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s follows a group of farm workers who go on a strike, but are met with soldiers on horseback as they face the reality of revolt, oppression, morality, and violence.
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