Jancsó received a Best Director prize at Cannes for this rhapsodic portrayal of a nineteenth century peasant farmers' uprising. Staging maypole dances, folk chants, and other mass rites instead of tending to fields of grain, the strikers' processional ceremonies are tracked by Jancsó in twenty-six elegantly orchestrated shots and tensely observed by bailiffs, clergy, and eventually government troops.
"Dazzling… Jancsó's awesome fusion of form with content and politics with poetry equals the exciting innovations of the French New Wave… it may well be the greatest Hungarian film of the sixties and seventies." (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
(Film description from the LA Hungarian Film Festival)
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