Movie

Epidemic (1975)

• August 11, 1975
• 1h 30m

• Drama

Overview

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.

Director

Pál Gábor

Writers

Pál Gábor, Lajos Maróti

Starring

András Kozák, Anna Chodakowska, Ion Bog