| Allegro barbaro | |
| Director: | Miklós Jancsó |
| Starring: | György Cserhalmi Zsuzsa Czinkóczi Georgiana Tarjan Lajos Balázsovits István Kovács István Bujtor Bertalan Solti László Horváth József Madaras Gábor Koncz Sándor Kátó[1] |
| Runtime: | 73 min. |
| Country: | Hungary |
| Language: | Hungarian |
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.[2]
"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."[3] Allegro Barbaro is thus considered to be part II of the director's Hungarian Trilogy.[4] [5]
The title refers to a musical piece of the same name by Béla Bartók,[8] that was extensively used in the soundtrack of another film by the same director, Elektra.