One of the leading lights of international cinema in the 1960s and 70s, and one of Hungarian cinema's most renowned artists, Miklos Jancso, died on Friday at age 92. A recipient of a Best Director prize at Cannes for 1972's Red Psalm and a Career Golden Lion award at Venice, he was among the most critically-acclaimed European directors of his generation, and his fellow countryman Bela Tarr has been quoted as hailing him as 'the greatest Hungarian director of all time'. He had been suffering from lung cancer, and is survived by three children, Nyika, Babus and David.
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