Director: Miklós Jancsó
Cast: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi, László Csurka, Zoltán Gera,
Plot: In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, the two youths form a friendship in spite of not speaking each other's language.
Miklos Jancso and the abuses of power
Miklos Jancso is one of the key figures of Hungarian cinema, but my first encounter with his work didn’t go well. In fact, when I saw the first two parts of his unfinished Vitam et Sanguinam trilogy at the 1981 Hong Kong International Film […]