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The Fifth Seal

Az ötödik pecsét

1976

In Nazi-occupied Budapest in 1944, four friends in a tavern debate a searching moral question — and are soon forced to answer it for real when the authorities put their consciences to a terrible test. A profound, harrowing drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Hungarian Films

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