Agnus Dei

History, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Miklós Jancsó

Status Released

Release Date 1971-04-22

Storyline

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression.