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...
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform ...
It is 1947; the Communist Party has just taken power in Hungary. In Jancsó's first color film, young students at a People's College have a debate with seminary students, but worry it will escalate into a fight.
Mail for translation. 1951, Budapest. A kitelepitettek minden holmijukkal egyutt megrakott teherautokon zsufolodnak. A Hortobagyra tartanak, ott jelolt ki szamukra ...
A woman is murdered in the Blue Box. Police suspect that the owner of the cinema (András) did it, however they do not have the slightest evidence to prove his guilt.
The last months of life of Hungarian writer Máté Zalka who joined the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War.