Allegro barbaro is a 1979 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó.The film starring György Cserhalmi, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Lajos Balázsovits, Georgiana Tarjan, István Kovács in the lead roles.
"Hungarian Rhapsody and Allegro Barbaro (both 1978) formed the first two parts of an uncompleted trilogy on the life of a nationalist executed in 1944 for his involvement in an anti-Hitler plot. Both were judged too parochial to travel abroad." Allegro Barbaro is thus considered to be part II of the director's Hungarian Trilogy.
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Cast
György Cserhalmi as Zsadányi István
Zsuzsa Czinkóczi as Bankós Mari
Georgiana Tarjan as Tarján Györgyi
Lajos Balázsovits as Zsadányi Gábor
István Kovács as Komár István gróf
István Bujtor as Hédervári
Bertalan Solti as Öreg Bankós
László Horváth as Kovács
Analysis
The title refers to a musical piece of the same name by Béla Bartók, that was extensively used in the soundtrack of another film by the same director, Elektra.