Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Anatole Litvak
Writers: George Tabori, Guy de Maupassant
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards
Awards: 1 nomination
Duration: 2h 6m
Budapest 1956. A group of Westerners try to leave the city when Soviet military occupy the country. But the airport is closed down and they have to take a bus to the border. At the border they are stopped by red tape - and Major Surov. The reasons are sketchy, but it seems that the major is romantically interested in one of the westerners, Diana Ashmore.
A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.
