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7.6/10   115 votes
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Director:
Miklós Jancsó
Writers:
Gyula Hernádi (writer)
Imre Vadász (writer)
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Release Date:
14 January 1965 (Hungary) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops... more | add synopsis
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Imaginative and ambient more

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Also Known As:
My Way Home
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Runtime:
Sweden:109 min | Hungary:108 min
Country:
Hungary
Language:
Hungarian | Russian
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-12

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Imaginative and ambient, 6 October 2008
9/10
Author: josephbleazard from United Kingdom

This film has been described as Jansco's first masterpiece. I would probably agree. The story concerns a 17yr old hungarian stranded in Russia at the end of the second world war, adrift after the collapse of the German army. He speaks a few words of German and no Russian. He seemingly feels nothing, and the film gives no easy explanations why. Like every other character in a Jansco film he seems completely overwhelmed by the scale of the landscape who finds himself wandering in almost antlike, almost always lost at the rear of a longshot. We never learn how close he is to hungary.

Eventually the film becomes a vivid and psychologically telling depiction of male friendship. In 1967 a story of friendship between a Russian and a hungarian after WW2 is an incredibly political subject,yet Jansco affects a kind of delightful innocence in this section and never lets his symbolism overwhelm his characters. What could have been over-reaching and didactic emerges as more of a chamber piece. I don't know how Jansco ever got away with making these kinds of movies in a soviet country.

My only caveat is that Jansco's most significant theme, political violence and its random nature, is partly explored in this film but in a way completely superficial and unaffecting compared to the terrible catharsis of films like "The round up" and "the red and the white".

Overall, a gem

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