RED & THE WHITE - DVD-1968-JOZSEF MADARAS (OUT OF PRINT)

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• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Drama, Foreign, War
• Plot: Banned for many years in the U.S.S.R., Hungarian director Miklos Jansco's masterful The Red And The White is a haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war.; ; Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, the story details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with skillful speed from a deserted monastery to a riverbank hospital to a final, unforgettable hillside massacre.; ; The director of such Hungarian cinema classics as Silence And Cry (1968), My Way Home (1964) and The Roundup (1967), Jancso here creates what many believe to be his finest work. The Red And The White is a moving visual feast where every inch of the Cinemascope frame is used to magnificent effect. With his brilliant use of exceptionally long takes, vast and unchanging landscapes and Tamas Somlo's hypnotic black and white photography, Jancso gives the film the quality of a surreal nightmare. In the director's uncompromising world, people lose all sense of identity and become hopeless pawns in the ultimate game of chance.
• Cast: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák, Jácint Juhász, Anatoli Yabbarov, Sergei Nikonenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Bolot Bejshenaliyev, Tatyana Konyukhova, Krystyna Mikolajewska, Viktor Avdyushko, Gleb Strizhenov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Miklós Jancsó
• Director: Miklós Jancsó
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Kino Video
• Media Format: Movie