"Actor: András Kozák"

• The Round Up | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Round Up takes place within a detention camp in the remote Hungarian countryside after the collapse of the 1848 revolution against Austrian domination. A formal variation on the main patterns of ritual power Jansco deliberately side-steps revolutionary heroics and focuses on the persecutions and de-humanizations which always accompany conflict. Filmed in hungary's desolate sun scorched landscape Jansco's formidable technique - his austere formalism and stark cinematic vision - has produced a remarkable and terrifying picture of war and its cost.

• Miklós Jancsó Box Set (3 Films) | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £22.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (9.17%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise:My Way Home: In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier.The Red And The White: Available for the first time on DVD, Csillagosok Katonak has been digitally remastered with new English subtitles added.Set in central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, this film from Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancso witnesses the brutality and senselessness of war as the Red and the White armies battle in the hills along the Volga. Told from the vantage point of Hungarian troops fighting for the Red Army, Jancso's Cinemascope frame captures the horror these soldiers endure fighting for the Bolsheviks, and the surreality, chaos, seemingly arbitrary nature of war.The Round-Up: The Round-Up takes place within a detention camp in the remote Hungarian countryside, after the collapse of the 1848 revolution against Austrian domination. A formal variation on the main patterns of ritual power, Jansco deliberately side-steps revolutionary heroics and focuses on the persecutions and de-humanizations which always accompany conflict.Filmed in Hungary's desolate, sun scorched landscape, Jansco's formidable technique - his austere formalism and stark cinematic vision - has produced a remarkable and terrifying picture of war and its cost.

• The Confrontation (Fényes szelek) | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the director of The Round-Up, My Way Home and Red Psalm. Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made; The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power. Jancs's first colour film is another virtuoso display by a director at the peak of his powers, and eloquently explores the complex issues and inherent problems of revolutionary democracy.

• Hungarian Masters Box Set (3 Films) | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Films include: Love (aka Szerelem) (1971): This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the '50s. A woman's (Mari Torcsik) husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with her mother-in-law (Lili Darvas) a sweet and magnetic woman appears to believe that her son has emigrated to America. Unable to do anything about her husband's imprisonment the daughter-in-law keeps the old woman's good cheer alive by concocting a series of letters from her husband wherein he does incredible and wonderful things...The role of the mother-in-law was played at the request of the director by octogenarian Lili Darvas the wife of the famous Hungarian playwright and novelist Ferenc Molnar. My Way Home (aka Igy Jottem) (1965): In the final days of WWII a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops then released then captured once more and imprisoned at a remote barracks where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. Diary For My Children (aka Naplo Gyermekeimnek) (1982): From one of the world's most accomplished women directors Meszaros' film connects the personal with the political by portraying the impact of individuals upon history and of historical forces upon individual lives. Poignant and autobiographical this is the first in her renowned 'Diary' trilogy.