1919年俄国革命后,内战爆发,在伏尔加河平原上,不少匈牙利人加入了苏维埃红军同白军展开消耗战……一名来自匈牙利的红军士兵被杀死在村边的河流中,白军驱车在村庄宣传,似乎胜利已经在握。落魄的红军战士跑回营地,而那里同样有白军俘虏,红军除去俘虏的衣服羞辱他们,但是转眼间营地又被白军包围, 这次失去军装的是红军士兵,一身军装成为了人们区分敌我的唯一标示,抹消对方身份和屠杀的报复行为在两方间周而复始……几个红军战士逃出营地,在白军的围追中亡命天涯,而他们所遭遇的一切,注定是以死亡为终结的无奈循环。 本片是匈牙利新浪潮的代表作之一。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 then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and characters the camera picks out soon die. A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. At the hospital, White officers order nurses into the woods, dressed in finery, to waltz. A nurse aids the Reds, then they accuse her of treason for following White orders. Red soldiers walk willingly, singing, into an overwhelming force. War seems chaotic and arbitrary.