The Red and the White
A stark, intellectually rigorous examination of ideological conflict and human suffering during civil war, where institutional spaces become battlegrounds and meaning collapses into absurdity.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
József Madaras
Hungarian Commander
Tibor Molnár
Andras
András Kozák
Laszlo
Juhász Jácint
Istvan
Anatoli Yabbarov
Captain Chelpanov
Sergey Nikonenko
Cossack Officer
Mikhail Kozakov
Nestor
Tatyana Konyukhova
Yelizaveta the Matron
Krystyna Mikołajewska
Olga
Viktor Avdyushko
Sailor
Gleb Strizhenov
Colonel
Nikita Mikhalkov
White Officer
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