The Red and the White
1967, NR, 90 min.
Directed by Miklos Jancso, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jacint Junasz, Andras Kozak, Tibor Molnar, Jozsef Madaras.

Jancso’s formal stunner, although concerned with a specific time in Hungarian history, is also a universal story about war, the human patterns of power and submission, and the arbitrary laws of the universe. It is a story about humanity rather than individuals, a war story that has no clear sides, an epic without heroes. His war movie looks more like an Antonioni film than a genre actioner, interested more in form and technique than narrative events.

This article appears in June 28 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.