“One of Jancsó’s masterpieces – perhaps even his best film of all – and totally unlike anything else in the cinema” (John Russell Taylor)
"Rarely has a portrait of a police state wielded such stunning force; its very brevity only amplifies its brute power. In 1919, after the defeat of the short-lived communist republic, a former Red soldier, Istvan, takes refuge from the agents of the White terror who are on his trail, on the farm of a politically suspect family intent upon nothing more than their own survival. When the soldier discovers that he is being poisoned, his kindly commander reveals that personal loyalty means nothing against the sadism of the state. Chilling in its absolute artistry, ritualistic in its rhythms and visual design, Silence and Cry turns the barren Hungarian prairie into a stage for its unremitting account of terror and tyranny, shot in the stunning, choreographed long takes that were the director’s trademark." (Cinematheque Ontario)
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