The Lost Generation (1968)

7.5/10 • 95 min • Drama

Overview

The engineer Ambrus has been suspended in his job because he publicly called the attention of the customers to a construction mistake of some goods designed to be exported. His immediate boss learns the news on a business trip to Paris. He meets his old friend Lendvay, an emigrant from Hungary, and his French wife in a cellar bar. After their talk Benkő starts seeing things in a different perspective. When he returns home, he decides to take a stand for Ambrus against Ferenczi, the general director, despite his wife's and the old director's advice.

Cast

Zoltán Latinovits

Ambrus László

Miklós Gábor

Benkõ Béla

Mari Szemes

Ambrusné, Anna

László Mensáros

Ferenczi

Philippe March

Lendvay

Imre Ráday

Szamosi (as Rádai Imre)

Zsuzsa Bánki

Benkõné, Erzsi

Andrea Drahota

Bernadette Lafont

Marie

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