Nyika Jancsó Movies

The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the...

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film focuses on three eras...

Each year Celina crosses the Argentinean Pampa in her car to visit her daughter Fernanda. Among hundreds of disappearances, they were the only two...

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the...

The director of the film subjected herself to hypnosis with the assistance of a famous Hungarian doctor. The event was recorded by a fixed camera,...

World-renowned maestro Claudio Abbado opens up about his life and work in this profile that effectively combines images of the conductor in rehearsal...

Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” has inspired generations of artists to adaptations like scarcely any other work. In his...

The story takes place at the time of the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, when Csákberény came under the terror of the...

This László Vitézy documentary examines the sensitive topic of drug use in Hungary. The work, dating from 1988, was the first to...

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of...

The Third film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need...

The film portrays women who were interned for long periods of time in the 1950s without trial. They were humiliated, separated from their families,...

Márta Mészáros' father, the sculptor László Mészáros, was executed during the Stalinist purges of...

The film is made up of two independent episodes, which only have the basic setting in common. The little schoolteacher in Free Saturday, when she...

Jancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the...

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c)...