The Red and the White ( Csillagosok, katonák ) ( Zvyozdy i soldaty )

The Red and the White (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Csillagosok, katonák
Alternate Title: Zvyozdy i soldaty
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Documentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Miklós Jancsó

Written By:
Gyula Hernádi
Miklós Jancsó

Actors:
Anatoli Yabbarov ..... Captain Chelpanov
András Kozák ..... Laszlo
Bolot Bejshenaliyev ..... Chingiz
Gleb Strizhenov ..... Colonel
Jácint Juhász ..... Istvan
József Madaras ..... Hungarian Commander
Krystyna Mikolajewska ..... Olga
Mikhail Kozakov ..... Nestor
Nikita Mikhalkov ..... White Officer
Sergei Nikonenko ..... Cossack Officer
Tatyana Konyukhova ..... Yelizaveta the Matron (as Tatiana Koniukova)
Tibor Molnár ..... Andras
Valentin Bryleyev
Viktor Avdyushko ..... Sailor
Vladimir Prokofyev

Synopsis:

Miklos Jancso has said, 'To show things in bright colors is devastating.' In Csillagosok, Katonak, he examines Hungarians fighting in the Red Army in 1918 during the bloody civil war in Russia. Utilizing horizontal compositions of vast landscapes and lateral tracking shots in a widescreen frame to depict the spaces between two great armies massed against each other, he makes no value judgments for a war in which guilt is shared by both sides in the conflict. The film details a Hungarian unit supporting the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White army on the banks of the Volga. Jancso adds distinct touches like a White army officer casually tweaking his nose before ordering a mass execution and a doomed romance between a Magyar and a Polish nurse. Through all the confused violence and conflicting emotions, a stoical head nurse must tend to both Red and White army wounded.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 May, 2006.

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