1971 · hungarian · political · allegory
Agnus Dei
Directed by Miklós Jancsó1h 24m1971
Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression.
Our read: Agnus Dei (1971) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive hungarian · political · allegory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured hungarian / political, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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