Released Date:
1966-01-06
Languages:
Hungarian
Countries:
Hungary
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (1493 Reviews)
Director:
Miklès JancsèIn Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.
Released Date:
1968-09-20
Languages:
Hungarian, Russian
Countries:
Hungary, Soviet Union
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (2151 Reviews)
Director:
Miklès JancsèGyula Hernèdi
Miklès Jancsè
Luca Karall
Valeri Karen
Giorgi Mdivani
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and characters the camera picks out soon die. A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. At the hospital, White officers order nurses into the woods, dressed in finery, to waltz. A nurse aids the Reds, then they accuse her of treason for following White orders. Red soldiers walk willingly, singing, into an overwhelming force. War seems chaotic and arbitrary.
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