84 minutes
4/17/1969
An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.
Lajos Balázsovits
as Pásztor Balázs
Nadesda Kazassian
as Irini, Iliasz felesége
Todor Todorov
as Iliasz
László Bánhidi
as János bácsi
István Iglódi
as Halmos Jancsi
Tibor Molnár
as Kerék András
Katalin Berek
as Balázs anyja
József Madaras
János Pásztor
as father of Balázs
Kati Berek
as mother of Balázs
József Bihari
as grandfather of Balázs
Lajos Őze
as college teacher
Sándor Kőmíves
as Uncle Géza
Ferenc Némethy
as Gönczi
János Görbe
as farmer