本短片根据希腊神话中西绪福斯（Sisyphus）的故事改编，获1976年奥斯卡最佳动画短片提名。
风华之王艾奥罗斯（Aeolus）的儿子西绪福斯以狡诈机智闻名于世，曾在位于两国之间的狭窄地带创建了科林斯城（Corinth），囤积了大量财富。宙斯（Zeus）拐走了河神阿索波斯（Asopus）之女埃癸娜（Aegina）后，西绪福斯为了自己的利益，向阿索波斯告发了埃癸娜的藏身处，宙斯异常恼怒，派死神塔那托斯（Thanatus）拿下西绪福斯，但塔那托斯反被西绪福斯戴上了沉重的镣铐，人间再没人死亡，直到战神阿瑞斯（Ares）出面，塔那托斯才把西绪福斯带到冥界，但西绪福斯又设巧计重回人间。西绪福斯的灵魂终被塔那托斯摄取，其后他接受了严酷的惩罚：每天必须用尽全力将巨大的石头推上陡峭的高山，快到山峰时，石头会自动从他手中滑落，他要再来一次，周而复始，他要重复这种劳动。但本短片从另一视角新编了该神话故事。

Plot / Synopsis
An animated history lesson for Hungarian schoolkids.
Divided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who are only half-human, one being half-bird, the other half-bear. The narrator delves into the origins of Hungarian culture, the Iranian and Turkish influences that impacted the society, and finally the story of Stephen, the emperor who brought Christianity to the country and shifted the capital west in an attempt to link with Europe. Using a mainly choral soundtrack, pic takes itself very seriously, with no attempts at humor as the lengthy saga unfolds.
Review:
This animated movie meant to show Marcell Jankovics's total devotion and love to our country... Unfortunately, its NOT very entertaining for everyone, and foreigners might simply find it dull. And they're not to blame at all. Looks like this one's been made to "stay in the family". The truth is: It looks more like like a strange ethnographic study on the Hungarian race... Otherwise, its a "complete" movie in its own theme, so if you want to watch some really original animation (horribly dated for it's time, unfortunately) ideas for like 90 minutes, or you're interested in our thousand years old myths and legends, it is definitely worths a watch. Why not.
However, this movie is pretty much like a compilation of Jankovics's earlier series, "Mondák a magyar történelemből", which was way better (it was spot on, at the time it was made, and the episodic nature of these stories fits much better into a series of short cartoons, than a long, and extremely fragmented one), so If you can speak our language, I'd recommend that instead of this movie.

Hungarian animated television series