Based on Ambrose Bierce, Gábor Bódy's acclaimed first feature portrayed two Hungarian emigrants in the Union Army in the last days of the American Civil War. They represent opposite attitudes: on the one hand, that of the rationalist, the "technocrat" wanting to serve the cause with his skill and knowledge; on the other, the romantic revolutionary for whom the end of the war brings the end of his raison d'être. Attached inseparably to the gun, feeling himself rootless, he challenges his fate in a spectacular suicidal gesture. This is a bitter philosophical story related in an unusual experimental form, where the images try to recreate the daguerreotypes of the last century, but as if they were taken virtually on the spot, candidly. Uncertain frames, damaged, dimly lighted pictures evoke the ambiance of the past: a pseudo-documentary with the ambition of strengthening immediacy and closeness to reality, but having also a kind of alienation to assure the distance for reflection.-Yvette Biro