Sándor Dánffy

At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings to the village a physically and mentally handicapped woman, barely able to speak. She makes herself bracelets of burrs and studies herself in a cracked and cloudy mirror. Befriended by very few, teased and tormented by many she seeks protection at a huge portrait of Stalin.

L'histoire de la famille Sonnenschein à travers le destin de trois générations, de l'empire des Habsbourg jusqu'au lendemain de la révolution hongroise de 1956. Avec sa formule de liqueur médicinale, Emmanuel Sonnenschein a bati la fortune de la famille et déjoué, pour un temps seulement, l'antisémitisme prononcé de la sociéte hongroise. Mais son fils Adam, malgré une médaille d'or aux Jeux olympiques de 1936, ne pourra échapper a l'holocauste. C'est en partie pour le venger que son fils Ivan a choisi de faire carrière dans la politique.

The heroes of the film are manual workers, members of a Socialist Brigade. Gyula, the brigade leader once has a dream where the gate-keeper searches through Lenin, about to leave the factory. He decides to stage Gelman's play, Premium, with his brigade, since the drama very effectively depicts what they see in the world around.