Release, runtime and language

1962 · 95 mins · Hungarian

Directed by

Károly Makk

Starring

Tibor Molnár, Ferenc Kállai, István Avar, András Ambrus, Ádám Szirtes, Sándor Pécsi

Bene, an exhausted engineer weary of bureaucratic conflicts and a marriage that has gone off the rails, requests a transfer to the countryside. In the arid sands of Nagyalföld, the Great Hungarian Plain, water scarcity is the region’s direst crisis. The indefatigable director of the local state farm pleads for Bene’s expertise, yet the disillusioned man turns down the appeal.