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Jön az öcsém (1919) More at IMDbPro »

The family waits for the returning brother. The young revolutionary emerges from behind the brow of the hill holding a fluttering flag. The enemies fight a bloody battle. The hero and his battalion suffers defeat. The young fighter is imprisoned, but the slogan "Proletars of the world, unite!" makes him escape. He raises a new army around the preserved flag. News are read out back home when the young brother comes home. The two brothers embrace each other. A revolutionary mob proceeds on the street. Written by Anonymous

This rare and unusual film has been rediscovered & preserved in some out-of-the-way museums, like the Suomen Elokuva-Arkisto (Finnish Film Archive) in Helsinki, Finland. "Jon az Ocsem" ("John the Younger Brother") is particularly unusual because it's a staunchly pro-Communist, pro-Russian film directed by a man (Kertesz) who later became a very rich and famous capitalist producer-director in Hollywood ("Mike Curtiz"). "Jon az Ocsem" may be Curtiz's oldest film that has been preserved, out of dozens of his other early Hungarian and Austrian films which seem to be lost forever. Written by Prof. Steven P. Hill (University of Illinois)

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