Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.
Direction
Jancsó's endless tracking shots create suffocating, inescapable tension.
Cinematography
Black-and-white landscapes where figures become abstract patterns of threat.
Acting
Ensemble moves as one organism—individuality dissolves into conspiracy.
Director
Miklós Jancsó
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made months after the Prague Spring's crushing; Jancsó's Eastern European revolutionaries always lose, and he knew exactly why.
That 9-minute single take of the failed escape? Jancsó rehearsed it for two weeks. The horses were more expensive than the actors.
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