马戏团演员帕比与士兵倍明朗哥自战场回归后发现他们的家己面目全非，二人于是结伴而行；他们在帕比所偷的脚踏车上发现珠宝，与犹太麦面包师的女儿艾丝特快乐地生活在一起，艾丝特产下一女后，却因帕比所偷的珠宝而被窃贼所杀，帕与倍也因私藏珠宝而下狱……

　　由于科曼亚历克斯和失败者的兄弟们，Ákos和安德斯的处境比以往任何时候都要糟糕。警方的追捕和敌对黑手党团伙的围堵使情况变得更加复杂。这次搜寻的目标是一枚价值数百万美元的神秘邮票，而这些男孩的命运也再次受到威胁。比赛开始，埃斯特和提米也加入了这场比赛。那些倒霉的人们会再次逃脱吗？

　　Hungarian Rhapsody (Magyar Rapszodia) is the first chapter of director Miklos Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II. The story is told from the vantage point of Gyorgy Cserhalmi, the son of a wealthy landowner. During World War I, Cserhalmi is instrumental in quelling an army mutiny. Upon realizing that he has been responsible for the deaths of several peasant conscripts, Cserhalmi vows to be a "man of the people" when hostilities cease. He joins a communist cell, but finds he is woefully out of place. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Cserhalmi's political viewpoint is governed almost exclusively by his vacillating emotions. The film is enhanced with a "Russian Roulette" leitmotif, not unlike the fatalistic throughline of Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Director Jancso followed Hungarian Rhapsody with Allegro Barbaro; both films were originally released in tandem, then redistributed as separate features. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

二战期间，战争与死亡的阴云笼罩整个欧洲，无一国家幸免。 　　居住在匈牙利的14岁犹太青年卡维（Marcell Nagy 饰），在乘车探望父亲的路上被纳粹军人拦下，随后被送往集中营。在这个非人的所在，死亡、疾病、虐待、恐惧时刻威胁着他们的生命。听取了好友凯尔泰斯的建议，卡维发誓无论如何也要活着走出这个人间地狱…… 　　本片根据2002年度诺贝尔获奖作家伊姆雷?凯尔泰兹（Imre Kertész）的同名小说改编，并荣获2005年波兰Camerimage电影节金蛙奖和2005年哥本哈根国际电影节最佳摄影奖。

　　在中世纪的匈牙利，王位继承人必须证明自己有资格成为阻止国家混乱的君主。