Mária Majláth

Fils de cheminot admis à l’Académie Militaire de l’Empire austro-hongrois. Alfred Redl se lie d’amitié avec un jeune aristocrate. Dissimulant ses origines comme son homosexualité, il gravit rapidement la hiérarchie. À la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale, l’archiduc François-Ferdinand lui confie la responsabilité des services secrets…

In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border, were forced to smuggling if they wanted to survive. Mihály, the Hungarian peasant, kills a border guard while fleeing. He is fed up with smuggling and wants to put an end to it, yet he needs money to get a job so he embarks on another turn.

The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.