If you loved Los rojos y los blancos, try Los desesperados
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Miklós Jancsó, and they both carry the dread, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to Los rojos y los blancos, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
dreadslow burn
What Los desesperados is
You witness a post-revolution purge in Hungary. Prisoners get swept into corrals, part of a dragnet meant to catch bandits, but trust erodes the group. Jancsó's camera finds patterns in the chaos. What remains is a study of power as pure theater.

