[2] Somewhere in Hungary, in the last days of World War II, Corporal Ferenc Molnár is on the run on a motorbike.
On his journey, he gathers around him a socially and politically diverse group of men whose aim is the same as his: Surviving the war.
As a satirical comedy about the war - a novelty at the time - the film became an immediate commercial and critical sensation in mid-1960s Hungary and was seen by 2.2 million viewers.
By putting a cunning everyman into the center of the plot, not heroical partisans, and satirizing all sides, this new type of war film spoke to many everyday Hungarians.
immediately entered the spoken Hungarian language and has been used in many variations since then.