Tibor Tánczos

The film is a true account of the drama of "non-action" on 14th and 15th of October, 1944. The Nazis, having a straightforward program, occupy Hungary with little or no difficulty, as the Hungarian political leadership had no unambiguous program for responding to possible steps of the Nazis. In spite of the secretly signed cease-fire agreement and proclamation, Horty gives up all plans of resistance at the news of the kidnapping of his son. The Nazis take over power and roll up the so-called conspiracy aimed at Hungary's breaking away from the German alliance.

In the summer of 1944 soldier Csorba is rewarded with furlough at a price of having committed a murder. He escapes. He tries to get to the heights of the Carpathians with Mother, to the cave of those who wish to die. That is where his mother and his father, the deserter, might be hiding.

The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.

En 1875, dans le vaste empire russe : Le capitaine Michel Strogoff est chargé par le tsar de Russie de porter un message secret de la plus haute importance dans la lointaine Sibérie orientale. Sa mission : avertir le frère du tsar, resté sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'arrivée imminente des hordes tartares menées par le traître Ivan Ogareff pour envahir la Sibérie. Commence alors pour le courageux courrier du tsar un très long et périlleux voyage, de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale.