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My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)

Posted By: Notsaint
My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)

My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 6200 kbps | 7.4Gb
Audio: Hungarian (Monaural) AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subtitles: English
01:48:00 | Hungary | Drama, War

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.

Director: Miklos Jancso
Cast: Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonenko, Bela Barsi, Jurij Bodovszkij, Viktor Chekmaryov, Sandor Csikos, Mari Csomos, Laszlo Csurka, Ferenc David Kiss, Zoltan Gera, Arpad Gyenge, Katalin Gyongyossy, Janos Gorbe, Tibor Haraszin, Janos Harkanyi, Ferenc Horvath, Laszlo Horvath, Vilmos Izsof, Peter Karikas, Janos Koltai, Janos Krasznai, Ilona Kallay, Janos Kormendi, Jozsef Madaras, Judit Meszlery, Tibor Molnar, Ida Simenfalvy, Sandor Simenfalvy, Bertalan Solti, Gyula Szersen

My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)

My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)


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
~ josephbleazard

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My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)

My Way Home / Igy jottem (1964)