Még Kér a Nép (1972)
Genre: Drama / War
Duration: 87 minuten
Alternative titles: Red Psalm / The People Still Ask
Country:
Hungary
Directed by: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Andrea Drahota, József Madaras and Lajos Balázsovits
IMDb score:
6,7 (2.169)
Releasedate: 9 March 1972
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Még Kér a Nép plot
At the end of the 19th century, a group of soldiers is sent to silence rebellious peasants. The insurgents are trying to unleash a socialist revolution in order to break the aristocratic ascendancy. A psychological battle ensues, in which idealism and folklore prove to be powerful weapons.
Actors and actresses
Petkó Szautner András
Énekes
Socialist
Nagy Mária, socialist
Ráczné, socialist
Galambos lány, socialist
Maid
Peasant woman
A mourning woman in a white shawl
Countess
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Poetically designed and symbolically rich film about the confrontation of rebellious farm workers with landowners, the church and the army. The monotonous use of long shots with a constantly moving camera, the often circular choreography and the singing did not appeal to me. Not my thing, probably because I usually understood little about the symbolism. Too bad.
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wibro
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- 4098 votes
WOW!
The third film by this director that I have seen and this one is worth framing. Never seen such beautiful women before. And then I haven't even mentioned those stripping ladies. You won't find them this beautiful in a nightclub.
More about the film;
Visually - and let's not talk about the ladies - this is of course also a beautiful film. This also applies to the other two films Szegénylegények (1966) and Csillagosok, Katonák(1967) that I have seen. Yes, Miklós Jancsó is a great discovery for me. Of course, his films are not free from propaganda, certainly not in this film, which is undoubtedly a paean to communist ideals. A memorable scene for me was the burning church around which the ladies and gentlemen of the farmers' commune sang.
Just to get back to those topless ladies; It is clear where the FEMEN protest group from Ukraine got its inspiration from to protest topless. So they weren't very original. The ladies of Red Psalm were well ahead of them. 
4.5*
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tbouwh
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- 5823 messages
- 5404 votes
Rural ritual in film form, with a clearly separated working class that tries to keep the revolution alive in a mix of pagan folklore and Christian salvation thinking. The title is in constant conclave with itself: call the film ritual a homemade prayer (psalm with socialist rhyme) for protection and victory, which yet inevitably ends in fatalistic bloodshed; call the workers' ideas a door that is open, but also notice that a church is going up in flames.
Red Psalm was too ideologically hermetic and far too counter-intuitive to actually take me by the hand, but the dynamic camerawork (with beautiful long, continuous shots) and the attention to silences (rather than bombast) ) made the necessary amends.
At times I felt like I was in a communist variant of The Wicker Man, as evidenced by (among other things) the representation of femininity and the maypole (phallus/obelisk) that both films colors; TWM in the dance, RP in the mass slaughter of the workers.
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