The Red and the White

The Red and the White

1967 · 90 min · ★ 7.0 · War, Drama

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.

Directed by Miklós Jancsó · Written by Luca Karall

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