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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1967 DVD Release: 01/08/2002 Format: DVD - Black and White,Letterbox for TV Audio Tracks: Hungarian Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 32 mins Studio: Kino Members Wishing: 3 Genres: War, War Drama

Miklos Jancso has said, "To show things in bright colors is devastating." In Csillagosok, Katonak, he examines Hungarians fighting in the Red Army in 1918 during the bloody civil war in Russia. Utilizing horizontal compositions of vast landscapes and lateral tracking shots in a widescreen frame to depict the spaces between two great armies massed against each other, he makes no value judgments for a war in which guilt is shared by both sides in the conflict. The film details a Hungarian unit supporting the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White army on the banks of the Volga. Jancso adds distinct touches like a White army officer casually tweaking his nose before ordering a mass execution and a doomed romance between a Magyar and a Polish nurse. Through all the confused violence and conflicting emotions, a stoical head nurse must tend to both Red and White army wounded. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Andras Kozak - Laszlo
Krystyna Mikolajewska - Olga
Tibor Molnar - Andras
Jacint Juhasz - Janos
Jozsef Madaras - Hungarian Commander
Tatyana Konyukhova - Yelizaveta the Matron
Mikhail Kozakov - Nestor

This controversial drama from Hungary, long suppressed before the fall of the Soviet Union, has been given a simple but strong presentation on DVD. Csillagosok, katonák (aka The Red and the White) has been given a letterboxed transfer to disc at the widescreen aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono; the dialogue is in Hungarian, and optional English subtitles are included. No bonus materials appear on this edition. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide