Epidemic

Epidemic

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 11, 1975

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

A járvány

Director

Pál Gábor

Description

The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, peasants dying of the illness and of overdoses of bismuth, by the miserably starving population, the healthy digging mass-graves and by uncultivated lands.