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The Red and the White
Directed by
Miklós Jancsó
Not Rated
1968
90m
Drama
,
War
7.5
95%
86%
7.0
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During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army - aided by Hungarian Communists - and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.
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Cast of The Red and the White
József Madaras
Hungarian Commander
Tibor Molnár
Andras
András Kozák
Laszlo
Juhász Jácint
Istvan
Anatoli Yabbarov
Captain Chelpanov
Sergey Nikonenko
Cossack Officer
Mikhail Kozakov
Nestor
Tatyana Konyukhova
Yelizaveta the Matron
Krystyna Mikołajewska
Olga
Viktor Avdyushko
Sailor
Gleb Strizhenov
Colonel
Nikita Mikhalkov
White Officer
Vladimir Prokofyev
Valentin Bryleev
Bolot Beyshenaliev
Chingiz
Miklós Jancsó
Director / Writer
Luca Karall
Writer
Valeriy Karen
Writer
Gyula Hernádi
Writer
Giorgi Mdivani
Screenplay
The Red and the White Ratings & Reviews
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
Tamás Somló's black-and-white Cinemascope cinematography is stunning, and there are more occasions to identify with specific characters than in The Round-Up, but the mood overall remains chilly and abstract compared to the typical American war film.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.
The Film Yap
Christopher Lloyd
Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó's seminal film is both masterful and absurdist, using cutting-edge cinematic techniques to show the chaos and pointlessness of war.
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
The Red and the White makes Cinemascope the only apt proportion. It expresses feelings in the characters' bones. As the soldiers are physically on the screen, so they are psychically in the story.
Patheos
Eve Tushnet
Incredibly strikingly-filmed Hungarian movie about the Russian Civil War.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
...the starkest example on offer of Jancsó's methodology of presenting both sides of a military or political conflict and, while clearly favoring one over the other, nevertheless depicting all involved as human, fallible and corruptible.
Artforum
Manny Farber
A swift, fresh-air war movie...
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Jancs organizes the swarming and scattered fighters with a stupendous, almost unnoticed virtuosity, delineating the chaotic action in precise, flowing long takes.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you've never encountered Jancso's work, you shouldn't miss this.
TV Guide
The Red and the White is quintessential Jancso. Like most of his best known films, it is a study of war on its meanest and most squalid level.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
One of the few truly anti-war pictures
Variety
Variety Staff
Jancso concentrates his message on the philosophical problem of life and death. Unknown and nameless men enter history in a given moment and after some time they step out of the scene with their death.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It icily captures the gloomy mood of battle, painting each side in the same dismal color.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...frustratingly esoteric and inaccessible.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Jancso's formal stunner, although concerned with a specific time in Hungarian history, is also a universal story about war, the human patterns of power and submission, and the arbitrary laws of the universe.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
A war film unlike any other.
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