Storyline

In this minimalist anti-war film, a faction of Hungarian soldiers on the side of the Russian Red army, led by a determined commander (Jozsef Madaras), fight against the pro-Czar white army in a remote Russian field near a dense wood along the Volga River. As the tide of battle ebbs and flows, a small group of compassionate nurses, including Olga (Krystyna Mikolajevska), do not differentiate between the sides, transporting all wounded soldiers to the nearby wood and treating their injuries.

Plot Keywords

commander, soldier, nurse, hungarian, russian, bleak, emotional, powerful, battlefield, russia, woods, russian revolution, horrors of war, battle, violence, human connection, helping others, quest, sacrifice, rivalry, 1910s

Short Review

After only a couple of films, the landscape of Miklos Jancso is already one of the most unmistakable in cinema.

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