The Red and the White

The Red and the White

Directed by Miklós Jancsó

Produced by Mafilm, Mosfilm

196790 min7.0 / 10

A stark, intellectually rigorous examination of ideological conflict and human suffering during civil war, where institutional spaces become battlegrounds and meaning collapses into absurdity.

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.

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  • Is The Red and the White sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Is The Red and the White easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Does The Red and the White end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is The Red and the White scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is The Red and the White violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

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67/ 100

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