Károly Peller

헝가리의 거장 피테르 바쵸의 대표작이지만 당시 헝가리의 사회주의 체제를 통렬히 비판한 탓에 제작한 뒤 10년여 간 상영금지됐던 작품. 한 소시민이 부당한 이유로 거듭 감옥에 끌려가고 곤란한 상황에 놓인다.

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.

Kalán Imre, the district doctor lives in a small village surrounded by mountains. One day he is visited by two young relatives of his and their friend, a doctor at the beginning of his career. The name of the doctor is Király András, and he happens to be the great love of Kalán's young wife from her unmarried years. The orthodox Stalinist Kalán's entire life is filled with his great passion, hunting. The suffocating, narrow lives of the prominent people in the area are slowly revealed to András.