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The third and most eagerly awaited in Second Run's series of Miklós Janscó films, The Round-Up is widely acknowledged as a true masterwork of world cinema. The Round-Up takes place within a detention camp in the remote Hungarian countryside, after the collapse of the 1848 revolution against Austrian domination. A formal variation on the main patterns of the ritual of power, Janscó deliberately side-steps revolutionary heroics and focuses on the persecutions and dehumanizationswhich always accompany conflict. Filmed in Hungary's desolate sun-scorched landscape, Janscó's formidable technique - his austere formalism and stark cinematic vision - has produced a remarkable and terrifying picture of war and it's cost. Nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. Special features include Newly filmed interview with director Miklós Jancsó. Digital transfer with restored image and sound, approved by the Director. Anamorphic 16:9 enhanced for widescreen televisions. New and improved English subtitle translation. Optimal quality dual layer disc. Booklet featuring a comprehensive new Essay by author John Cunningham. ''People need to see Jancsó's really beautiful three or four first movies. The highest mountain is The Round-Up...'' Béla Tarr ''No one has tried quite the same thing in the same way, and that is Jancsó's most formidable legacy'' Derek Malcolm - 100 Greatest Movies
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Those who have never seen a film by Jansco... are usually astonished by the experience. --The Guardian
When you have a frame by Janscó, you know immediately it's his. He'll always be important, not just for Hungarian or European cinema. --Bela Tarr
A sublime, provocative, and haunting examination of moral bankruptcy and human conflict. --Strictly Film School
When you have a frame by Janscó, you know immediately it's his. He'll always be important, not just for Hungarian or European cinema. --Bela Tarr
A sublime, provocative, and haunting examination of moral bankruptcy and human conflict. --Strictly Film School
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Colin C
Format:DVD
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.
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A. S. Potts
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The other reviewers have given excellent accounts of these superb Miklos Jancso films so no need to add my modest thoughts. Having recently bought them perhaps it's worth mentioning the excellent Second Run releases in terms of quality and extras which the others have not covered in any detail, if at all.
Of the two - The Round-Up and The Red and the White, the Round-Up clearly comes from a superior print source. It is clean and sharp although not without occasional damage and speckling. The poorest section is the opening titles which has the most speckling but once into the main body of the film it is only sporadic.
The bold contrast looks very good - it seems comparable to the print I saw at the NFT some years ago - in the transfer the whites behave themselves and there's detail in the shadows. One major problem comes in the appalling scene where the poor naked girl is whipped as she runs between two lines of soldiers. The fast close-up panning produces in the telecine lots of very noticeable little black pixel blocks in the trail of the image. This also reoccurs in a shot later in the scene but I haven't spotted this technical problem elsewhere. Nevertheless it's a stunning film, which comes with a new [2008] 20 min interview with the director and as always with Second Run an excellent illustrated booklet.
The source print for The Red and the White seems to be a softer, slightly murky one, by comparison. It has a good measure of speckling at the head of the opening reel, as with The Round-Up. There's even a persistent scratch in the right-hand quarter of the frame that continues some way into the body of the film.... Read more ›
Of the two - The Round-Up and The Red and the White, the Round-Up clearly comes from a superior print source. It is clean and sharp although not without occasional damage and speckling. The poorest section is the opening titles which has the most speckling but once into the main body of the film it is only sporadic.
The bold contrast looks very good - it seems comparable to the print I saw at the NFT some years ago - in the transfer the whites behave themselves and there's detail in the shadows. One major problem comes in the appalling scene where the poor naked girl is whipped as she runs between two lines of soldiers. The fast close-up panning produces in the telecine lots of very noticeable little black pixel blocks in the trail of the image. This also reoccurs in a shot later in the scene but I haven't spotted this technical problem elsewhere. Nevertheless it's a stunning film, which comes with a new [2008] 20 min interview with the director and as always with Second Run an excellent illustrated booklet.
The source print for The Red and the White seems to be a softer, slightly murky one, by comparison. It has a good measure of speckling at the head of the opening reel, as with The Round-Up. There's even a persistent scratch in the right-hand quarter of the frame that continues some way into the body of the film.... Read more ›
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By rigo yangtse
Format:DVD
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.
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
First attempt to watch this and I was excessively tired and the slow pace of the film did not help my concentration span. I found myself drifting, as this requires a fresh pair of eyes. The film of the "camp" is relentless with its mundanity and alienation. This is brought across within the various scenarios.
There is some confusion for those who do not comprehend the history, as we are told at the beginning this was a civilising mission on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian army br"inging order to the Hungarian interior. It reminded me of the "Manifest Destiny of the American mission. All undertaken within the same time period as the uniforms resonate.
Within the camp there is a general mind incarceration and band routinisation of prisoners, the bag over the head to disorient, redolent of the American punitive system in Iraq. The solitary confinement, game playing and inevitable executions drag the prisoners into a quagmire as they resist through a grim determination of silence.
The film plays upon game playing and how a people is broken down through ruse. This resonates with Erich Fromm's "Dogma of Christ" and Jan Karski's "The Secret State." How does an occupier, occupy and erase dissent from a sullen populace. This film shows one particular method of breaking down the unity of prisoners.
One problem within the film is the lack of an inability to inhabitat a character, as they are all herded into a herd, the inability to either empathise or demonise became a problem, for me.
The Central European camerawork however is superb, bringing out large washes of barren, bleak, flat landscapes of the Central European plain.... Read more ›
There is some confusion for those who do not comprehend the history, as we are told at the beginning this was a civilising mission on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian army br"inging order to the Hungarian interior. It reminded me of the "Manifest Destiny of the American mission. All undertaken within the same time period as the uniforms resonate.
Within the camp there is a general mind incarceration and band routinisation of prisoners, the bag over the head to disorient, redolent of the American punitive system in Iraq. The solitary confinement, game playing and inevitable executions drag the prisoners into a quagmire as they resist through a grim determination of silence.
The film plays upon game playing and how a people is broken down through ruse. This resonates with Erich Fromm's "Dogma of Christ" and Jan Karski's "The Secret State." How does an occupier, occupy and erase dissent from a sullen populace. This film shows one particular method of breaking down the unity of prisoners.
One problem within the film is the lack of an inability to inhabitat a character, as they are all herded into a herd, the inability to either empathise or demonise became a problem, for me.
The Central European camerawork however is superb, bringing out large washes of barren, bleak, flat landscapes of the Central European plain.... Read more ›
By Bennettskaya
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The story of rebels versus the authorities.
It's set in a prison stockade with the sky overhead and and endless, flat landscape all around.
There are many scenes in this film where the camera lingers - and they are beautiful - black and white graphic shapes in a landscape. Yet never does the film become 'arty'. The story is so strong and so well told, so well paced and full of tension, that the imagery fits into the story and is part of it. Highly, highly recommended.
It's set in a prison stockade with the sky overhead and and endless, flat landscape all around.
There are many scenes in this film where the camera lingers - and they are beautiful - black and white graphic shapes in a landscape. Yet never does the film become 'arty'. The story is so strong and so well told, so well paced and full of tension, that the imagery fits into the story and is part of it. Highly, highly recommended.
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Difficult as it is to add anything to the enthusiastic comments posted here, I feel compelled to add my voice to the chorus of praise for the Round Up. Read more
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