The Red and The White

Set during the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Miklós Jancsó's The Red and the White is a war film unlike any other. Through its stylistic virtuosity, ritualistic power and sheer beauty, Jancsó invites us to study the mechanisms of power almost abstractly and with a cold eroticism that clearly portrays the utter futility of war. Although the film was an Hungarian-Russian co-production, the Russian authorities banned it from being shown anywhere in the Soviet Union.

Miklós Jancsó is arguably the key Hungarian filmmaker of the sound era and The Red and the White will be the first of his films that Second Run DVD will be releasing through 2006.

"A tour de force of a very special kind ... an astonishing director." - Derek Malcolm, The Guardian

" Miklós Jancsó ... one of the great political film makers." - The Village Voice

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[8888kama]

agreed........"democratic" UK and USA and barbaric Japan wanted Red Russia dead.

[VladimirIIyichLenin1]

one ofm my favorite movies!

[LNKtheWizard]

So... You 'like' if you like the movie or you 'dislike' if you dislike this war, ey?

[KSudbury]

Most of the Russian people were not in favour of the Bolsheviks in 1917-24. The vote would have gone to the Social Revolutionaries, not the Bolshevicks and the Russian Royal family would never have been murdered had it not been for Lenin. Russia can resume its historic role now without the incumbrance of Bolshevism--to which so many were sacrificed over seventy years.

[panatiychuk74]

все человечество интуитивно знает, что убивать, красть, прелюбодействовать – это грех,

[eneyco]

Дуже добре!

[Thatpersson]

@Radicalempiricist

Blockbuster

[Radicalempiricist]

Where can we see the whole film?

[DrKorn5]

I would like to know what the name of the waltz that is playing is if you would happen to know.

[DrKorn5]

yeah "dictatorship of the proletariot" is definatly a democracy. You sound like you have no clue...how many different white armies where there? Are you familiar with the Komuch? One cannot toss all the white armies into just one White army. And I think you will find that a good portion of the VA and the AFSR in the south where peasants. I now await your pathetic socialist ramblings that just like the rest sound like a broken record player repeating the same ole BS.

[ramberghini]

I definitely recommend this film to any of you watching this clip. Incredible movie, especially the ending. men go to war for ideas, but they die for no reason. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight what is wrong, we should know that war produces only victims in the end.

"Come and See" along with this film are probably the most honest depictions of war in a film.