The Red and the White 1967 In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks defeat of Czarists, the Whites Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods Neither side has a plan, and characters the camera picks out soon die A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid At the hospital, White officers order nurses into the woods, dressed in finery, to waltz A nurse aids the Reds, then they accuse her of treason for following White orders Red soldiers walk willingly, singing, into an overwhelming force War seems chaotic and arbitrary