A simple, religious Hungarian woodcutter lives with his wife and boy child with a small community of squatters among the peaceful mountains of Transylvania until a lumber company claims their land and forces them all to become company workers or else leave the land. This 1942 Hungarian film takes a detailed and unflinching look at the hardships of mountain living, and the realistic approach proved influential to the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Hungarian master director Istvan Szots won the Biennale Cup at the Venice Film Festival for his auspicious debut, but the film was banned by the Nazis as "too Catholic" and not publicly exhibited until after World War II.
as Gergely Csutak
as Anna Csutak
as Gergö Csutak, their son
as Márton Üdö , Gergo's godfather
as Ádám Ülkei
as manager
as maid
as György Bende, doctor
as György Bende
as woodcutter
as woodcutter
as woodcutter
as Court Clerk
as guide
as passenger
as passenger
as passenger
as passenger
as passenger