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Hungarian Rhapsodies

THE ROUND-UP
SZEGÉNYLEGÉNYEK

• Director: Miklós Jancsó
• HUNGARY / 1966 / DCP / B&W / 91’ / Hungarian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Gyula Hernádi
• Director of Photography: Tamás Somló
• Editing: Zoltán Farkas
• Cast: János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár, Gábor Agárdi, András Kozák, Béla Barsi, József Madaras
• Producer: István Nemeskürty
• Production Co.: Mafilm
• World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary

1966 Locarno FIPRESCI Prize
1966 Hungarian Film Week Grand Prix, Best Director
1966 Hungarian Film Critics’ Prizes Main Prize, Best Cinematography, Best Actor
1967 London Best Foreign Film of the Year

Premiered at Cannes in 1966, influential auteur Miklós Jancsó’s fourth feature is an historical parable that garnered him international attention. A film of hypnotic beauty, precision choreography, and daring technique, The Round-Up is considered by many as a classic of world cinema; a milestone in Hungarian film history, and a seminal work of Modernism. Modelling the manipulative relationship between authority and the individual, The Round-Up (literally translated as The Outlaws) recounts the interrogation and brutal tactics of the empire’s gendarmerie over arrested partisans in order to break them psychologically.

This film is screened as part of the Turkish-Hungarian Cultural Year with the kind contribution of of the Liszt Institute Hungarian Culture Center and the Hungarian National Film Institute.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.