The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák)
Directed by Miklos Jansco
Written by Gyula Hernadi, Miklos Jansco, et al
1967/Hungary/USSR
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One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
[box] “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” -Leon Trotsky[/box]
Extraordinary images. Unfortunately, they are of wartime slaughter.
Hungarian Communists join the Russian Civil War on the side of the Reds. In this particular part of Russia, it seems that the Whites are in the ascendency. All captives are stripped and cruelly executed by either side. Throw in a few rapes and you have the plot.
This movie is absolutely gorgeous. But all that gorgeousness is in the service of repetitive scenes of the sadistic games played before the execution of POWs. Never again.
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