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Hungarians (1978)
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Original name: Magyarok
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, tragic ending, grim
Plot:
world war two, migration, social realism, anti fascism, survival, poverty, village life, getting home, humanism, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, loss of innocence, community, resistance, pow, peasant, humiliation, return home, hungarian
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
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Story:
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