Jancsó’s latest addition to the recent successful “Pepe and Kapo” series of films sees the heroes travel back in time to a fateful date in European history. Andrew James Horton argues that the director has never been more involved in contemporary politics.
With each successive film in the “Pepe and Kapo” series, of which A Mohácsi vész (The Battle of Mohacs, 2003) is the latest, octogenarian Miklós Jancsó’s burst of energy late in his career seems all the more remarkable. The mid-1990s had seemingly stumped the director, and after Kék Duna keringő (The Blue Danube Waltz) in 1991 there was a seven year break from directing full-length feature films. Had the free market and old age defeated this old iconoclast of Hungary’s Communist era?
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