The Confrontation is a 1969 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó. Filmed in and around the Benedictine Pannonhalma Archabbey, it is set in 1947, during the Second Hungarian Republic. The plot involves tensions between leaders of a student revolutionary group that takes over the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma: Laci believes in befriending and convincing the high school students, but Jutka tries to resort to revolutionary terror. Both are deposed by the plainclothes police who have been complicit in the takeover.

The Confrontation (1969)
Directed by Miklós Jancsó
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Themes
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1968 Cannes Film Festival, College, Event, Festival, France, Hungarian, Long Take
Attributes
Narrative Location: Hungary
Alternate Titles
Ah! Ça ira
FR
Astrafteroi anemoi
GR
Fényes szelek
HU
Frihetens vindar
SE
Konfrontasjon
NO
Konfrontation
DK
La confrontació
ES
La confrontación
ES
Os Ventos da História
PT
Ożywcze wiatry
PL
Schimmernde Winde
DE
Sparkling Winds
GB, ZZ
The Confrontation
GB, US
Vapauden tuulia
FI
Venti lucenti
IT
Vientos brillantes
UY