# Miklós Jancsó's best films

Long takes, the puszta and power: Miklós Jancsó's key films, based on recommendations by Magyar Narancs, Life.hu and the National Film Institute.

- 36 votes · 13 items
- Jan 26, 2024 · detour_szeged
- https://even.best/en/l/3338/miklos-jancso-s-best-films

## Top 13

1. **Cantata (1963)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The standout of his early career.
2. **The Red and the White (1967)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Hungarians caught up in the Russian Civil War.
3. **My Way Home (1965)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A young soldier in 1945.
4. **Red Psalm (1972)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Best director at Cannes.
5. **Winter Wind (1969)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Croatian anarchists in the 1930s.
6. **The Round-Up (1966)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — A milestone of Hungarian cinema; in competition at Cannes.
7. **Silence and Cry (1968)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — After the fall of the 1919 Soviet Republic.
8. **The Confrontation (1968)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Young communist students in 1947.
9. **Agnus Dei (1970)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The 1919 counter-revolution.
10. **Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The first part of a planned trilogy.
11. **Elektra, My Love (1974)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Electra myth on the puszta.
12. **Allegro barbaro (1979)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The follow-up to Hungarian Rhapsody.
13. **The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The first Kapa and Pepe film, with Zoltán Mucsi and Péter Scherer.

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