The Round Up (1965 film)

The RoundUp Hungarian Szegnylegnyek , Outlaws is a 1965 Hungarian film directed by Mikls Jancs. Well received in its home country, it was Jancss first film to receive international acclaim.

Following the quelling of Lajos Kossuths 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule in Hungary, prison camps were set up for people suspected of being Kossuths supporters. Aroundyears later, some members of highwayman Sndor Rzsas guerrilla band, believed to be some of Kossuths last supporters, are known to be interned among the prisoners in a camp. The prison staff try to identify the rebels and find out if Sndor is among them using various means of mental and physical torture and trickery. When one of the guerrillas, Jnos Gajdar, is identified as a murderer by an old woman, he starts aiding his captors by acting as an informant. Gajdar is told that if he can show his captors a man who has killed more people than himself, he will be spared. Fearing for his life, he turns in several people his captors had been looking for by name, but could not identify among the prisoners.Eventually Gajdar becomes an outcast among the prisoners, and is murdered at night by some of his fellow inmates while in solitary confinement. The prison guards easily discover suspects, people whose cells had been left unlocked for the night, and start interrogating them with hope of finding Sndor himself. The suspects are tricked into revealing the remaining guerrillas when they are given a chance to form a new military unit out of former bandits and informed that Sndor, who was not among the prisoners, has been pardoned. However, the celebrating guerrillas are then told that those who previously fought under him, will still face execution. ........

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