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Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
Direction
Eleven-minute tracking shots that swallow characters whole.
Cinematography
Red everywhere — blood, flags, sunset, Jancsó's unblinking eye.
Score
Folk songs become funeral dirges for the revolution.

Director
Miklós Jancsó
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