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Miklós Jancsó (Vác, September 27 1921) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.

He achieved prominence in the 1960's. His most important works include Silence and Cry, Red Psalm, and The Red and the White. His films are characterized by elegantly choreographed long shots and long takes.

Biography

After graduation he studies law in Pécs, gets his degree in Kolozsvár (Cluj) in 1944. Registers with the legal Bar but avoids legal carreer. Moves to the capital Budapest in 1946. Marries Katalin Wowesznyi in 1949, their two children are Nyika (Miklós Jancsó Jr., b.1952) and Babus (Katalin Jancsó, b.1955). Gains Diploma in Film Directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, 1950. After divorcing Katalin Wowesznyi, he marries film director Márta Mészáros in 1958. In 1959 he meets Hungarian author Gyula Hernádi, who goes on to collaborate in Jancsó's films until his death in 2005. In 1968 Jancsó meets Italian journalist and script authoress Giovanna Gagliardo in Budapest, they move to Rome where he works for nearly a decade, with short periods in Budapest. In 1980 he separates from Gagliardo and marries film editor Zsuzsa Csákány in 1981, they have a son Dávid in 1982. Miklós Jancsó is honorary scholar at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest since 1988, and was guest teacher at Harvard between 1990 and 1992.

In 1958 he completes his first full-length feature film The Bells Have Gone to Rome. Jancsó's 1965 film The Hopeless Ones was his first major critical success abroad. Later important works from this period are the films The Red and the White (1967), Silence and Cry (1968) and Winter Wind (1969), whereby he fully develops his stylemarks notably sustained long shots and takes, bold camera motion and emphatic coreography and composition. Also directs several short films and documentaries, and works as theatre director from 1971. Awarded Best Director for The People Still Ask in Cannes 1972. In 1973 becomes laurate of the prestigious Kossuth Prize in Hungary. Receives awards for his life work in 1979 and 1990, Cannes and Venezia respectively. Continues to make successful films after the fall of the Eastern Bloc, most notably his trilogy The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999), Anyád! A szúnyogok (2000) and Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse (2001).

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 ==Biography==
-After graduation he studies law in Pécs, gets his degree in Kolozsvár (Cluj) in 1944. Registers with the legal Bar but avoids legal carreer. Moves to the capital Budapest in 1946. Marries Katalin Wowesznyi in 1949, their two children are Nyika (Miklós Jancsó Jr., b.1952) and Babus (Katalin Jancsó, b.1955). Gains Diploma in Film Directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, 1950. After divorcing Katalin Wowesznyi, he marries film director Márta Mészáros in 1958. In 1959 he meets Hungarian author Gyula Hernádi, who goes on to collaborate in Jancsó's films until his death in 2005. In 1968 he meets Italian journalist and script authress Giovanna Gagliardo in Budapest, they move to Rome and he works there for nearly a decade, with short periods in Budapest. In 1980 he separates from Gagliardo and marries film editor Zsuzsa Csákány in 1981, son Dávid born  1982. Miklós Jancsó is honorary scholar at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest since 1988, teaches at Harvard between 1990 and 1992.
+After graduation he studies law in Pécs, gets his degree in Kolozsvár (Cluj) in 1944. Registers with the legal Bar but avoids legal carreer. Moves to the capital Budapest in 1946. Marries Katalin Wowesznyi in 1949, their two children are Nyika (Miklós Jancsó Jr., b.1952) and Babus (Katalin Jancsó, b.1955). Gains Diploma in Film Directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, 1950. After divorcing Katalin Wowesznyi, he marries film director Márta Mészáros in 1958. In 1959 he meets Hungarian author Gyula Hernádi, who goes on to collaborate in Jancsó's films until his death in 2005. In 1968 Jancsó meets Italian journalist and script authoress Giovanna Gagliardo in Budapest, they move to Rome where he works for nearly a decade, with short periods in Budapest. In 1980 he separates from Gagliardo and marries film editor Zsuzsa Csákány in 1981, they have a son Dávid in 1982. Miklós Jancsó is honorary scholar at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest since 1988, and was guest teacher at Harvard between 1990 and 1992.
-In 1958 he completes his first full-length feature film ''The Bells Have Gone to Rome''. Jancsó's 1965 film ''The Hopeless Ones'' was his first major critical success abroad. Later important works from this period are the films The Red and the White (1967), Silence and Cry (1968) and Winter Wind (1969), whereby he fully develops his stylemarks notably sustained long shots and takes,  bold camera motion and emphatic coreography and composition. Also directs several short films and documentaries, and works as theatre director from 1971.
+In 1958 he completes his first full-length feature film ''The Bells Have Gone to Rome''. Jancsó's 1965 film ''The Hopeless Ones'' was his first major critical success abroad. Later important works from this period are the films ''The Red and the White'' (1967), ''Silence and Cry'' (1968) and ''Winter Wind'' (1969), whereby he fully develops his stylemarks notably sustained long shots and takes,  bold camera motion and emphatic coreography and composition. Also directs several short films and documentaries, and works as theatre director from 1971.
 Awarded Best Director for ''The People Still Ask'' in Cannes 1972. In 1973 becomes laurate of the prestigious Kossuth Prize in Hungary. Receives awards for his life work in 1979 and 1990, Cannes and Venezia respectively. Continues to make successful films after the fall of the Eastern Bloc, most notably his trilogy ''The Lord's Lantern in Budapest'' (1999), ''Anyád! A szúnyogok'' (2000) and ''Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse'' (2001).