"Director: Miklós Jancsó"

• 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.

• Electra, My Love (Szerelmem, Elektra) | Blu Ray | (26/09/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A parable for the idea that revolutionaries must continually renew themselves Miklós Jancsó Revolutionary in form as well as content, Electra, My Love is one of the great Miklós Jancsó's finest works. Set amidst the open plains and grasslands of Hungary, and shot in twelve long, beautiful, intricately choreographed takes by cinematographer János Kende, it is a provocative call to arms against any system that rules without justice. An expert in the symbolic expression of forbidden political ideas, Jancsó here radically reworks the ancient Greek myth as a philosophical reflection on the dialectics of power and oppression. Electra (seeking revenge for the murder of her father, the former king) attempts to rouse a cowardly and apathetic population against the rule of usurper tyrant Aegisthus. Jancsó's film examines issues of law, justice and power; the deliberate distortion of myth and reality reflecting the real horrors that Hungary had endured and was at that time still enduring. It's relevance for contemporary society is still potent and clear today.

• Red Psalm | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, Red Psalm is also one of the great Hungarian film director Miklos Jancs’s best-known films. Recounting the story of a peasant uprising in Hungary in the 1890s, the film examines the nature of revolt, and the issues of oppression, morality and violence. Shot using just 28 long takes, Red Psalm is an extraordinary film, a virtuoso exercise of form and content and a formidable work of art from a filmmaker at the peak of his powers.

• Silence And Cry | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Silence And Cry An elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó s trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect... Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White (of which this film forms the final part of an unofficial trilogy ) Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history. Features: Silence and Cry (1968) presented from a brand new 2K restoration of the film by the Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by the film's cinematographer János Kende. Original Hungarian soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic and film historian Tony Rayns New and improved English subtitle translation. World premiere on Blu-ray

• Passenger | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices the face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war but she has actually saved a woman's life. Her vision is shown and then the actual events. The last film of talented Polish director Andrzej Munk who was tragically killed during the making of project Passenger picked up Best Film at the Venice Film Festival and won the Special Award at Cannes.

• The Red And The White | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mikls Jancs's career spans 5 decades and over 25 films. He has been nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes 5 times and won 'Best Director' in 1972. 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

• My Way Home | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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.

• 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.

• Silence And Cry | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Silence And Cry An elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó s trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect... Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White (of which this film forms the final part of an unofficial trilogy ) Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history. Features: Silence and Cry (1968) presented from a brand new 2K restoration of the film by the Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by the film's cinematographer János Kende. Original Hungarian soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic and film historian Tony Rayns New and improved English subtitle translation. World premiere on Blu-ray

• Electra, My Love (Szerelmem, Elektra) | DVD | (26/09/2016) from £11.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (14.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A parable for the idea that revolutionaries must continually renew themselves Miklós Jancsó Revolutionary in form as well as content, Electra, My Love is one of the great Miklós Jancsó's finest works. Set amidst the open plains and grasslands of Hungary, and shot in twelve long, beautiful, intricately choreographed takes by cinematographer János Kende, it is a provocative call to arms against any system that rules without justice. An expert in the symbolic expression of forbidden political ideas, Jancsó here radically reworks the ancient Greek myth as a philosophical reflection on the dialectics of power and oppression. Electra (seeking revenge for the murder of her father, the former king) attempts to rouse a cowardly and apathetic population against the rule of usurper tyrant Aegisthus. Jancsó's film examines issues of law, justice and power; the deliberate distortion of myth and reality reflecting the real horrors that Hungary had endured and was at that time still enduring. It s relevance for contemporary society is still potent and clear today.

• 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.

• Private Vices Public Virtues | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The setting is a Central European kingdom near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.

• 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.