My Way Home

My Way Home

1965 · 99 min · ★ 7.1 · Drama, War

In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp.

Directed by Miklós Jancsó · Written by Imre Vadász

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