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Red Psalm / Még Kér a Nép Director: Miklós Jancsó, Country: Hungary, Release: 1972, Runtime: 87 "Perhaps the most ecstatic fusion of political and formal radicalism in the 40 years since Dovzhenko’s Earth.” – J. Hoberman, Film Comment, Sept - Oct. 2006 On a vast, flat plain in the Hungarian hinterlands a mass of peasant farmers have risen in revolt against the local landowners. The political authorities, troops of soldiers, and even the clergy come out to try to convince the peasants to return to their homes, but they’ll have none of it; their rebellion, expressed through communal dancing and singing, can no longer be so easily put down. By the time he made Red Psalm, Jancsó had already moved beyond even the whispers of storyline and plot that had anchored his earlier features; the visual splendor of each frame is at times overwhelming, as the combination of movement, sound and color becomes the expression of pure emotion. Containing only 26 shots over the course of its 87 minutes, Red Psalm is perhaps the most formally elegant of Jancsó's works.

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