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.

Starring:

András Kozák, Bolot Bejshenaliyev, Gleb Strizhenov, Jácint Juhász, József Madaras, Krystyna Mikolajewska, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nikolai Parfyonov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Pyotr Savin, Roman Khomyatov, Sergey Nikonenko, Tatyana Konyukhova, Tibor Molnár, Valentin Bryleyev, Valentina Berezutskaya, Viktor Avdyushko, Yele

Genre:

Drama, War