Csend es kialtas/Silence and Cry (1967)
DVD5 | Run time: ~74 min | MPEG2 720x576 PAL 4:3 ~4935 kbps avg | 3.64 GB
audio#1: Magyar | Dolby AC3 2 ch ~256 Kbps | audio#2: Russian | Dolby AC3 2 ch ~256 Kbps | Sub: English, French
Art-house, Drama
Miklos Jancso's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. Istvan Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal…