The Soil Under Your Feet

Treasured Earth

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.

Director

Frigyes Bán

Writers

Sándor Dallos, Pál Szabó

Released

December 23, 1948

Language

Hungarian