Marcell Jankovics Movies

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death.

Divided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who...

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend - a goose.

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented...

A young man calls his friend, goes to war, returns wounded and reunites with his friend.

Animated version of a famous Hungarian epic tale by János Arany.

Metaphor about art, about time, or how art uses the artist's life in his quest to create his work, in which he was pouring his talent, his vigor, and...

Once upon a time there was a farmer who had three sons: the youngest was a bit slow. Nevertheless, he acquires the golden slipper of the princess and...

The first part of an incomplete animated adaptation of the Bible.

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about...

The history of numbers from simple addition to the development of complex mathematical items.

A 1968 animation short from Marcell Jankovics.

The great actor hurries to his dressing room after the raging success. He gets rid of Othello's costume and mask. He is trying to find his way back...

A woman has 12 daughters and they were so cheeky that once their mother said in anger: "I wish you turned into jackdaws". Immediately the 12 girls...

The smallest son of the king has to find a bride for himself in the forest. But he finds only a kitty cat.

Short Gusztáv cartoon.