What is Silence and Cry / The Red and the White about?

SILENCE AND CRY, 1968, 73 min. Dir. Miklos Jancso. It is Hungary, 1919, and a former Red soldier on the run from White Terror agents finds refuge in a family's farm home. However, the family is under political suspicion and ruthlessly refuses to be caught or to let anyone expose them. The soldier eventually realizes he is slowly being poisoned. THE RED AND THE WHITE, 1967, 90 min. Dir. Miklos Jancso. Elaborate tracking shots, haunting black-and-white and panoramic Scope images frame this story of defeated Hungarian army soldiers caught behind enemy lines during the Russian civil war of 1919. The difference between killer and victim blurs with mind-boggling fluidity as the soldiers are left to defend themselves by all means possible.

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What is Silence and Cry / The Red and the White about?: SILENCE AND CRY, 1968, 73 min. Dir. Miklos Jancso. It is Hungary, 1919, and a former Red soldier on the run from White Terror agents finds refuge in a family's farm home. However, the family is under political suspicion and ruthlessly refuses to be caught or to let anyone expose them. The soldier eventually realizes he is slowly being poisoned.
THE RED AND THE WHITE, 1967, 90 min. Dir. Miklos Jancso. Elaborate tracking shots, haunting black-and-white and panoramic Scope images frame this story of defeated Hungarian army soldiers caught behind enemy lines during the Russian civil war of 1919. The difference between killer and victim blurs with mind-boggling fluidity as the soldiers are left to defend themselves by all means possible.