Screenplay:
Kálmán NádasdyCinematography:
Barnabás HegyiComposer:
Ferenc SzabóCast:
János Görbe, Zoltán Makláry, Lajos Básti, Miklós Szakáts, Violetta Ferrari, Ádám Szirtes, Gábor Mádi Szabó, János Dömsödi, Iván Darvas, László Bánhidi (more)Plots(1)
March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry. During the months of December 1848 and January 1849, the cause of the revolution appears to be lost. Petőfi goes to Transsylvania to join the army led by Bem, and the situation is soon reversed. With the canons of Gábor Áron arriving in the last moment, general Bem wins the battle at Nagyszeben. The Rumanian irregulars of Ávrám Iancu join the Hungarians in spite of the conspiracy led by clerical reactionaries. Although Hajdú Gyurka dies a heroic death, thousands and thousands more take his place to fight for the cause of the nation and of freedom. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![György Pálos](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/120/163120336_04f439.jpg)
György Pálos
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Corporal and Others (1965)
Lajos Rajczy
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Professor Hannibal (1956)
Gellért Raksányi
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Mattie, the Goose-Boy (1977)
The Csárdás Queen (1971)
Merry-Go-Round (1956)
![István Rozsos](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/519/163519566_3c5636.jpg)
István Rozsos
Romania
Best movies:
Somewhere in Europe (1948)
![Sándor Siménfalvy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/386/165386524_450818.jpg)
Sándor Siménfalvy
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Merry-Go-Round (1956)
My Way Home (1965)
The Round-Up (1966)
Lajos Soós
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dog's Night Song (1983)
István Szegedi Szabó
Austria-Hungary
Endre Szemethy
Austria-Hungary
![Elemér Tarsoly](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/143/164143608_2d2f8f.jpg)
Elemér Tarsoly
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Nobody's Daughter (1976)
The Corporal and Others (1965)
The Danube Pilot (1974)
![József Timár](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/519/163519623_d37aa2.jpg)
József Timár
Austria-Hungary
Sándor Tompa
Austria-Hungary
Irma Vass
Best movies:
Merry-Go-Round (1956)
Ants' Nest (1971)
A Half Pint of Beer (1955)
István Velenczey
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Last Nabob (1966)
The Witness (1969)
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
![Hédi Váradi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/461/162461330_d85404.jpg)
Hédi Váradi
Kingdom of Hungary
Rózsi Völcsei
Austria-Hungary
János Árva
Kingdom of Hungary