The Red and the White
1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Hungary
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.
Direction Miklós Jancsó
Cast József Madaras · Tibor Molnár · András Kozák · Jácint Juhász · Anatoli Yabbarov · Sergei Nikonenko
Screenplay Gyula Hernádi · Miklós Jancsó · Luca Karall · Valeri Karen · Giorgi Mdivani
Cinematography Tamás Somló
Original title Csillagosok, katonák (The Red and the White)
7.2
600 votes (FilmAffinity)
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