From his work as a painter and designer, Zoltán Huszárik (1931-1981) brought to his films a vivid and precise use of color and editing. Sindbad has been described as the visual equivalent of a Baudelaire poem. But Huszárik remains faithful to the surrealist spirit and the associative language of Hungarian novelist Gyula Krúdy, on whose writings Sindbad is based. The film revolves around an aging Don Juan/Don Quixote figure who sifts through his memories. His drives and his destiny (death and resurrection, endlessly repeated) are materialized and anthropomorphized in the film's evocation of fragmented time. Huszárik: "What does Sindbad want? To live, to exist in all milieux, in the ladies, in the objects, in the good flavor of the food, in the reflection of faded wine glasses, and in the mossy crosses of graveyards. The urgent striving for self-shaping sets up the store of his experiences."