The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
93 audience votes
Key crew
- Miklós JancsóDirector
- Gyula HernádiWriter
- Miklós JancsóWriter
- Luca KarallWriter
- Valeriy KarenWriter
- Giorgi MdivaniScreenplay
Cast
- József MadarasHungarian Commander
- Tibor MolnárAndras
- András KozákLaszlo
- Juhász JácintIstvan
- Anatoli YabbarovCaptain Chelpanov
- Sergey NikonenkoCossack Officer
- Mikhail KozakovNestor
- Tatyana KonyukhovaYelizaveta the Matron
- Krystyna MikołajewskaOlga
- Viktor AvdyushkoSailor
- Gleb StrizhenovColonel
- Nikita MikhalkovWhite Officer
Stills
Themes
desperateanxiousprovocativeabsurddramaticcriticalaudaciousawestruckdishearteningharshtragic