Cinema
My Way Home
Így jöttem
Miklós Jancsó · 1965
Synopsis
In 1945, Jóska, a seventeen-year-old Hungarian student, tries to reach the border, then turns back, and ends up a prisoner of the Soviets. He is sent to an isolated farm to help a young Red Army soldier, Kolya, guard a herd and milk the cows whose milk feeds the wounded. The two boys have no language in common, and a silent friendship gradually grows between them.
Context
Shot in 1964, the film was released in Budapest on 14 January 1965. Jancsó wrote the screenplay with the writer Gyula Hernádi. András Kozák plays Jóska, Sergei Nikonenko plays Kolya. One sees emerging in it the long takes that would become the filmmaker's trademark, even if the narrative remains for the most part cut in a classical manner. Critics have praised a lyrical film, in which the presence of the landscape and the arbitrariness of violence already hold a large place.
Who it is for
A war film without combat, in black and white, in which two boys understand each other without speaking; released in France on DVD by Clavis Films.
Prizes and reception
One of the first films in which its author's style takes shape, praised for its lyricism and its view of the absurdity of war.