Cannes and Venice awarded Hungarian film director Miklós Jancsó, who was of Romanian origin, died last Friday (January 31) at 92.

Born in 1921 in Vac, in Hungary, from a mixed Hungarian – Romanian family, Jancsó got a degree in law at the University in Cluj – Napoca in Romania in 1944. After fighting in the Second World War and brief period as a war prisoner, he chose to join the Film and Theater Academy in Budapest, and graduated with a degree in film making in 1950.

He received the Canned Awards for Directing in 1972 for the film Még kér a nép/Red Psalm, and was five times selected in the competition for a Palme D' Or. He was awarded the Gold Lion at the Venice Film festival in 1990 for his entire career.

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