When Red Psalm showed at PFA in the seventies, we wrote: Miklós Janscó's newest film deals with a peasants' revolt at the end of the nineteenth century. Bailiffs, gendarmes, landlords, even the army are unable to quell the agrarian strike. As in his preceding films, Janscó uses songs, dances, and sudden bursts of violence as elements in his choreographed camera-ballet. The action is symbolic, so that a kiss can resurrect a dead soldier, or a single pistol in the hands of a girl who speaks the words of Hegel can mow down an entire platoon. There is much violence and slaughter, but in the end, the triumph belongs to the oppressed: Red Psalm is a paean to revolutionary courage, lyrical and deeply moving.