Benedek Tóth

The story is set in the stifling atmosphere of the 1950s. The highly politicized everyday life of the period unfolds from the perspective of a young man coming from a poor peasant background who wins entry to the humanities faculty in Budapest. The film shows how politics interferes in and corrodes the private lives of people.

During World War II, a young poet remembers his love on a train bound for the front. He spent the days before his enlistment with his sweetheart. Poetry and love bring them momentary happiness. Bálint does not want to be separated from the girl, so they run away from the draft notice. Then, the girl disappears...

The film is put at the beginning of the century in Sárszeg, following the humiliation and collapse of a high-school teacher.

Set during the 1919 Republic of Councils in Hungary, the film follows a pacifist priest advocating for peaceful land reform and his brother, a teacher fighting for the revolution with arms. As political tensions mount in their village, the brothers must navigate the clashing ideals of faith, violence, and social upheaval.

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students.

Kati, a fragile, sixteen-year-old teenager and Sándor, a twenty-two-year-old young man get married defying their parents' and friends' objections. They spend their wedding night in a bunk-house, and then, trusting the strength of their love, they move in a boathouse on the Roman beach of the Danube.