---
title: 'The Confrontation (1969)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Miklós Jancsó'
released: '1969-02-06'
runtime_minutes: 80
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'Hungary'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-confrontation-1969'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062995/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Confrontation (1969)

1969 · 80 min · Drama, Music · Hungary

Original title: Fényes szelek

## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Miklós Jancsó](https://cinepixo.com/people/miklos-jancso)
- **Screenplay:** [Miklós Jancsó](https://cinepixo.com/people/miklos-jancso), [Gyula Hernádi](https://cinepixo.com/people/gyula-hernadi)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Lajos Vass](https://cinepixo.com/people/lajos-vass)
- **Producer:** [Ottó Föld](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-fold)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tamás Somló](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamas-somlo)
- **Editor:** [Zoltán Farkas](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoltan-farkas)

## Cast

- [Andrea Drahota](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrea-drahota)
- [Kati Kovács](https://cinepixo.com/people/kati-kovacs)
- [András Kozák](https://cinepixo.com/people/andras-kozak)
- [József Madaras](https://cinepixo.com/people/jozsef-madaras)
- [Lajos Balázsovits](https://cinepixo.com/people/lajos-balazsovits)
- [András Bálint](https://cinepixo.com/people/andras-balint)

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