Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó (1921–2014) was a Hungarian director regarded as one of the most distinctive stylists of postwar European cinema. After studying law and ethnography, he turned to film in the 1950s and developed a signature visual language built from long takes, sweeping crane and tracking shots, and choreographed movement across windswept plains. His films explored the cyclical violence of Hungarian history — peasant revolts, the failed 1848 revolution, the world wars — as ritualized power struggles rather than conventional narratives. His acclaimed films include The Round-Up, The Red and the White, Silence and Cry, Red Psalm, and Electra, My Love.