László Dezsõffy

Márta a une liaison secrète avec André. Son mari les surprend et force André à signer une déclaration dans laquelle il s'engage à s'exiler en Amérique... Adapté de Gaston Leroux, un mélange de suspense et de fantastique, par l'un des pionniers du cinéma magyar.

The story follows the life of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary.

György Bánáth landowner and Miklós Vass the teacher, on the verge of collapse, trudging all the way from Siberia where they have spent more than ten years as POWs, trying to prevent each other from falling from fatigue on the way home. Both become regular visitors to the Pálffy family and they both make amorous advances to Katinka, the beautiful daughter of the local vicar.

Camilla comes from a well-to-do provincial family. She turns down her country suitors because of their lack of culture and her urban suitors because of their immorality. Finally she falls in love with a poor young artist who is painting her portrait on commission of her father. The chances of their marrying appear slim because of the painter’s modest situation but still they get engaged in secret.