Mária Bisztrai

Un ambicioso actor de teatro (Brandauer) no duda en concentrar todos sus esfuerzos en adular el nazismo con tal de lograr el éxito en su profesión. Llega incluso a casarse con la hija de un importante prohombre del régimen para poder medrar.

This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements. Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.