The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, peasants dying of the illness and of overdoses of bismuth, by the miserably starving population, the healthy digging mass-graves and by uncultivated lands.
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András Kozák
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Anna Chodakowska
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Ion Bog
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Gábor Reviczky
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László Szacsvay
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Gábor Koncz
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József Madaras
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Pál Gábor Director · Lajos Maróti Screenplay János Gonda Composer
First release August 11, 1975 · Produced in Hungary · Original title A járvány
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Hungary
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Original title
A járvány
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Hungarian
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Hungarian
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Hungary · August 11, 1975
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