Silence and Cry
by Miklós Jancsó
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Actor: András Kozák, Andrea Drahota, József Madaras, Mari Törőcsik, Zoltán LatinovitsDirector: Miklós Jancsó
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Hungarian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Black & White, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 21st Century DreamQuest Films
DVD Reviews of Silence and Cry
DVD Review: One of Jancso's best film
Summary: 5 Stars
"Silence and Cry" is easily one of Miklos Jancso's best works. Anything from his 1960s period is great work of art, and "Silence and Cry" is no exception. The film is full of long sequences in which the choreography of both the actors' and the camera's movement is simply amazing. The DVD has rare extra features like the short documentary trilogy "The Presence". It also has a full director's filmography, listing all of Jancso's work, including early short films and television productions. It's a real bargain under $25 bucks, considering that similar DVDs from Criterion or Image cost a lot more. Highly recommended.
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Description of Silence and Cry
Miklós Jancsó?s 'Silence and Cry' is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial.István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal, who is now a commandant of the local Royal Gendarme outfit, István is safely hidden from the ever-prying eyes of the secret policemen, who relentlessly roam the countryside searching for ex-Red Army men and their sympathisers. However, upon discovering that the women are secretly poisoning the mother-in-law and the husband ? the legal owners of the farm ? István must make the most difficult decision of his life. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, István must decide whether to remain silent about the women?s devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.
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