The Soil Under Your Feet
In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son of a man to whom her father is indebted, in order that the debt be cancelled, only to be spirited away by her true love, a young peasant, by whom she soon becomes pregnant. Together they attempt to find a way to buy up her father's debt and also pay for a divorce from her husband, against various odds.
Frigyes Bán
Casts & Crew
Ádám Szirtes
Ági Mészáros
Tibor Molnár
Árpád Lehotay
Mariska Vízváry
István Egri
László Bánhidi
Viola Orbán
Beno Tamas
Ferike Vidor
Zoltán Makláry
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