During WW2, Hungarian soldier Lombos Mihály is denied furlough and returns to battle on the Eastern Front where he is captured by the Soviets who use him as a 'trampler' through the German minefields and as an interpreter.
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Gábor Makray | ... | Lombos Mihály |
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Géza Bodor | ... | Anatol Vorobjevics Kozov |
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Zsuzsanna Ripli | ... | Jevgenyina Komelkova (Zsenyka) (as Ripli Zsuzsanna) |
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Tamás Varga | ... | Ziffer Lajos |
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Enikõ Gulyás | ... | Lena / Elza |
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Tamara Zsigmond | ... | Lena / Elza (voice) |
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Sándor Pintér | ... | Dopcsenko (as Pintér 'Dopi' Sándor) |
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Márk Lencz | ... | Harkov |
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Tamás Csapó | ... | Szpartakusz (as Csapó 'Manó' Tamás) |
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Ferenc Lavro | ... | Szpartakusz (voice) |
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Péter Herbály | ... | Szuhov |
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Vitaliy Sopov | ... | Szuhov (voice) |
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Tibor Felszeghy | ... | Kolja (as Felszeghy 'Feló' Tibor) |
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Kristóf Szabó | ... | Antonio |
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Attila Fáy | ... | Szovjet õr |
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"Mankind is nature's greatest mistake. In his actions echoes millions of years of instinct and a few genius's idea's useless revolution." End of 1942, eastern front, Ukraine. Private Lombos, tied to his family and his homeland by a strong loyalty, is serving in the Royal Hungarian Army. Due to an administrational error, he cannot go back home on leave. Despite his sorrow, he does his duty and takes up arms again to march further into the hell of the eastern front. During an attack he gets wounded and he's forced to spend a night behind enemy lines hiding out in a pit, where he meets an old man. They talk through the night, and the old man's words tremble his unbroken faith in his family and his country. As the dawn approaches, soviet shtrafbat soldiers find them and Private Lombos falls into captivity, then soon he's forced to join the "mine tramplers", a penal battalion whose soldiers clear minefields by stepping on them. Lombos has a hard time fitting into this new scenery, but the ...
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Very fascinating Hungarian war movie that has deep religious undertones combined with great realistic battle scenes.