Szegénylegények (1966)

Director:

Miklós Jancsó

Writer:

Gyula Hernádi

Release Date:

6 January 1966 (Hungary)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established...

Plot Keywords:

Monarchy | Long Take | Prison | Surrealism | Revolution

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

János Görbe	...	Gajdar János
Zoltán Latinovits	...	Veszelka Imre
Tibor Molnár	...	Kabai
Gábor Agárdi	...	Torma (as Agárdy Gábor)
András Kozák	...	Ifj. Kabai
Béla Barsi	...	Foglár
József Madaras	...	Magyardolmányos
János Koltai	...	Varjú Béla
István Avar	...	Vallató I
Lajos Öze	...	Vallató II
Rudolf Somogyvári
Attila Nagy
Zoltán Basilides
György Bárdy		(as Bárdi György)
Zsigmond Fülöp
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
László Csurka
Lõrinc G. Szabó		(as G. Szabó Lõrinc)
László György	...	Csendõr
József Horváth
László Horváth
Jácint Juhász
József Kautzky	...	Csendõr
József Konrád
Magda Schlehmann	...	Juli
Ida Siménfalvy	...	Öregasszony (as Siménfalvi Ida)
Sándor Siménfalvy	...	Öregember (as Siménfalvi Sándor)
Gyula Szersén
Tibor Szilágyi
Endre Tallós
Géza Tordy	...	Fiatal tiszt
István Velenczei

Directed by
Miklós Jancsó

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Gyula Hernádi

Cinematography by
Tamás Somló

Film Editing by
Zoltán Farkas

Production Design by
Tamás Banovich		(as Banovits Tamás)

Set Decoration by
Tilda Gáti

Costume Design by
Zsuzsa Vicze

Makeup Department
Károly Hadai	....	makeup artist

Production Management
István Daubner	....	production manager
András Németh	....	executive production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Carlo Diramerian	....	second assistant director
Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács	....	assistant director

Art Department
Ferenc Kopp	....	construction manager

Sound Department
Zoltán Toldy	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
József Halom	....	assistant camera
Béla Örsi	....	chief lighting technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Gyula Várdai	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Ágnes Hranitzky	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Luca Karall	....	script editor
László Lénárt	....	location manager

Production Companies

• MAFILM IV. Játékfilmstúdió

Distributors

• Altura Films International (1969) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Hen's Tooth Video (1993) (USA) (VHS)
• Second Run (2008) (UK) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"The Hopeless Ones" -
"The Poor Outlaws" -
"The Round-Up" - USA (imdb display title)
"Desperaci" - Poland (imdb display title)
"Die Hoffnungslosen" - West Germany (TV title)
"Die Männer in der Todesschanze" - East Germany
"I disperati di Sandor" - Italy
"Kapinalliset" - Finland
"Les sans espoir" - France
"Los desesperados" - Argentina (imdb display title)
"Miehet ilman toivoa" - Finland (TV title)
"Oi nikimenoi" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Os Oprimidos" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Os sem Esperança" - Brazil

Runtime:

90 min | Hungary:95 min

Country:

Hungary

Language:

Hungarian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:16

Company:

MAFILM IV. Játékfilmstúdió

Trivia:

Voted as one of the "12 Best Hungarian Films 1948-1968" by Hungarian filmmakers and critics ("Budapest 12") in 1968 and then again as one of the "12 Best Hungarian Films" ("New Budapest 12") in 2000.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata (#1.1)" (2010)

Thundering hooves, wailing women

The plot description doesn't say it all, by any means. Thundering hooves, veiled and wailing women, desolate landscapes with waving seas of grass and the occasional forbidding stone fortress or burned house, this movie appeals to nearly all of the five senses. It's been three years since I saw it first, and scenes still flash vividly through my head. The harsh faces of the guards, the equally harsh faces of the prisoners. Blunt and brutal deaths. And overhead, the sun burning down, always.