UK Mall 1 - The Round Up [1966]

	List Price: £12.99 Our Price: £8.93 Your Save: £ ( % ) Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Second Run Starring: Janos Gorbe, Tibor Molnar, Andras Kozak, Zoltan Latinovits, Gabor Agardi Directed By: Miklós Jancsó
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5060114150225 Format: Black & White Label: Second Run Manufacturer: Second Run Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Second Run Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-03-17 Running Time: 87 Studio: Second Run Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Another Essential DVD Release Comment: Along with 'The Red and the White' by the same director and also released by Second Run DVD, this film is a must-have for any serious collector of world cinema. Made in Communist Hungary in 1966, it is about Hungarian prisoners rounded up by the Austrians one hundred years earlier, and held in a stockade set within a barren landscape. The themes of unjust imprisonment, oppression by a foreign country, and the powerlessness of the individual are all present here and must have carried immense power at the time the film was made. Many of the scenes in this strange film are in medium to long shots, across the flat landscape, and of groups of men inside the stockade. There are countless shots of great beauty and the pace is quite slow. As such the drama is almost abstract at times, and it's difficult to identify with many of the characters. The ending however, is very dramatic and deeply shocking. The DVD includes a lengthy interview with Jancso and the print of the film is very sharp. Customer Rating: Summary: A masterpiece Comment: It's almost unfathomable that a filmmaker like Miklos Jancso is virtually unknown here. His films are incredible, painful, beautiful. Like an Eastern European Sergio Leone, his films are both epic and intimate. THE ROUND-UP is (possibly) his finest film - set in a Hungarian detention camp in 1869, it unflinchingly demostrates the dehumanising effect of war and abuse of power. Powerful, visually stunning and above all relevant - this is a film that should not be missed by lovers of cinema.