The following description comes from the event organizer.

The Beacon Cinema, in partnership with RED MAY, is proud to present six masterworks from Miklós Jancsó, the first internationally recognized auteur of modern Hungarian filmmaking and the creator of a unique and highly influential film language. Largely unavailable in the U.S. until now, Jancsó’s films arrive in stunning 4K restorations, courtesy of Kino Lorber, many of which make their Seattle premieres during this month-long retrospective.

Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Structured as a passion play. An awesome fusion of form with content, and politics with poetry. Stylized dance with collective choreography depicts the fight of those answering terror with violence. The film honors the agrarian Socialist movements of the end of the nineteenth century, while. conveying a historical philosophical critique of the Socialist ideas.

Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972, RED PSALM is widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 60s and 70s.