The Red and the White

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites, in a remote Russian field near the Volga River. The film follows Hungarian Red Army soldiers, led by an ardent commander, as they battle against the White Army in a brutal and senseless conflict that defies heroism or easy moral resolution. A profoundly anti-heroic film that depicts the harsh realities of war, "The Red and the White" is a starkly critical and audacious work that challenges its viewers to confront the absurdity and tragedy of armed conflict.