A lager is a Communist work camp and the mythical comic tale for this Hungarian film (done entirely in Russian with a Hungarian narrator) is said to have emerged from those camps. Set during the Soviet regime, the fantasy begins in Leningrad where two disparate thieves, one from the country and the other from the country, team up with a girl to rob the State Bank. The film is shot in black and white, but the color red appears on flags and occasionally in other places too. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi