Csillagosok, katonak 1967

Critics score:
92 / 100

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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: If you've never encountered Jancso's work, you shouldn't miss this. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Jancso organizes the swarming and scattered fighters with a stupendous, almost unnoticed virtuosity, delineating the chaotic action in precise, flowing long takes. Read more

Tony Rayns, Time Out: The effect is a precise ambivalence: a celebration of revolutionary heroism, and an icily detached recognition that both sides in a war can be mirror images of each other. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more