A simple, religious Hungarian woodcutter lives with his wife and boy child with a small community of squatters among the peaceful mountains of Transylvania until a lumber company claims their land and forces them all to become company workers or else leave the land. This 1942 Hungarian film takes a detailed and unflinching look at the hardships of mountain living, and the realistic approach proved influential to the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Hungarian master director Istvan Szots won the Biennale Cup at the Venice Film Festival for his auspicious debut, but the film was banned by the Nazis as "too Catholic" and not publicly exhibited until after World War II.
A documentary about president and statesman Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954), following his political career from the first assignment as an Agriculture secretary in his home state then his take over of power in 1930 after a coup, leading Brazil for 15 years, then the democratic election that restored him to power in 1950 until his suicide in 1954.
The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets involved to pay the mortgage that threatened the pension.
