In this caricature-like film an old film director offers his memories of his career to his former student, now a studio manager, as an idea for a new film. We can see the director in Berlin in the twenties, where his task is to make a film star of Hungarian origin cry out of homesickness.

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.

During World War II, a young poet remembers his love on a train bound for the front. He spent the days before his enlistment with his sweetheart. Poetry and love bring them momentary happiness. Bálint does not want to be separated from the girl, so they run away from the draft notice. Then, the girl disappears...

Cabinet crisis threatens in Futbólia, due to a series of lost matches. The head of state charges admiral Duca with the task, as a last chance, to get hold of the football star of the Hungarian team presently playing in Switzerland.

影片根据菲利普·悉尼爵士生前日记中关于匈牙利人民抗击土耳其侵略军的记述改编的。事件和人物大多是真实的。影片生动地再现了匈牙利历史上著名的埃格尔要塞争夺战。

Corporal Molnár (Imre Sinkovits) decides that war has ended for him and makes his getaway from his corps with all their money hidden in empty grenades. He tries to hide in a castle which is guarded by the derisive groom Albert (Tamás Major). Unfortunately the hideaway is full of other fugitive soldiers so he takes command and risks his and his comrades lives in dangerous adventures - they are acting as an official corps, saving a soviet soldier, fighting with Arrow-cross detachments. Things are going well but in the end they are getting into soviet captivity where they are organizing a partisan commando... The sentence from this movie "The Russians are in the larder" has become an adage in Hungarian language until Today.