Karl Bardosh

Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.

Set in the 1930s, a schoolteacher prone to visions and daydreams agrees to give a ride to a young cowboy whom she meets in a ghost town after getting lost in the desert.

This controversial and steamy love story unfolds as a daughter of Christian missionary and a son of a Jewish rabbi become lustful, then infatuated, and finally deeply in love. The question is - what would you do for love? Change your faith? Rob a bank?

Silence ('Csend') is an experimental short film by Károly Bárdos from 1968. A short film of associations of images and shapes, sound effects and wonderful compositions.