A stark cold and powerful film from hungarian director miklos jancso the setting is the desolate countryside some time after kossuths 1848 rebellion against the oppressive habsburg austrian empire power has been restored to the oppressors but partisans are still carrying out violent actions in order to root out the guerillas the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated detention camp the authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders who are supposed to be pre