István Bujtor

Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972 and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 70s, Miklós Jancsó's masterpiece set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s follows a group of farm workers who go on a strike, but are met with soldiers on horseback as they face the reality of revolt, oppression, morality, and violence.

Political cinema master Miklós Jancsó examines micro-social behavior in a historic conflict between idealist anarchists seeking refuge in Hungary.