FILM TITLE

Focus Country - Hungary. Zoltán Fábri Retrospective. Magyarok ​/ Hungarians

18+

16th March 2026 | 06:30 PM
The Theatre

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Image-Description
Language
Hungarian
Duration
107 mins
Director

Zoltán Fábri

Festival And Awards

-  Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards (1979).

- Moscow International Film Festival: Won the Golden Prize in 1977.

- Lumière Film Festival: Selected for screening in 2019 as part of a retrospective on Hungarian heritage.

Synopsis

The film follows a group of landless Hungarian peasants who leave their home village to work as migrant labourers on a large farm in northern Germany. Though the wages are good and they are initially sheltered from the front lines, they become uncomprehending witnesses to the atrocities committed by the German army against POWs and civilians. As the war draws to a close, they choose to return to Hungary, only to be swept up in the final, violent tides of the conflict.