Punitive Expedition, Büntetőexpedíció (1970) dir. Büntetőexpedíció

The Monarchy leads a repressive campaign against a Serb village, where an Austrian officer was killed. In 1913, an Austrian lieutenant is shot dead in a small village in the south of the AustroHungarian Empire. A cavalry detachment is despatched to take Using the language of film, Dezső Magyar broadens this simple story into a metaphor of oppression and the struggle against the oppressors. Using archive footage and working in a completely unique way for the time, the director gets his message across in a truly eloquent manner. After leaving Hungary, Dezsős subsequently banned oeuvre was one of the most painful gaps in Hungarian film for many years.