The Red And The White

Set in 1919, during the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Miklós Jancsó’s The Red and the White is a war film unlike any other. In the brutal Civil War which took place, Hungarian volunteers supported the ‘Red’ revolutionaries in a war of attrition against the ‘White’ counter-revolutionaries.

In the ‘60s and ’70s, Hungary’s Miklós Jancsó, with his gorgeous camerawork and dancelike choreography of landscapes and characters, was heralded with such titans of the arthouse as Tarkovsky, Bergman, and Antonioni. His best known film, this expansive war movie is a landmark of visionary cinema.