Paul, a black-and-white film by Hungarian sculptor Györdj (Diurki) Lajos Medvetski, was shot in France. This is his only full-length film. Young Paul, tired of the suffocating atmosphere of his family, leaves the house. First he gets a job in the village, then gets into a commune engaged in theft, meets a girl Marianne.
The performer of the main male role began his film career with “400 strokes” Truffaut starred in The Last Tango in Paris, in a number of Godard's paintings. Bernadette Lafon (Medvetsky’s wife), who played the role of Marianne, later became famous thanks to the film “Mommy and the Whore”.
This film is reminiscent of the works of Bela Tarr (although it appeared long before the famous films of the Hungarian classic), the same cocktail of beautiful black and white shots and boundless melancholy. Buying up on dialogues, the picture is a successful fusion of absurdism, polished social satire (the lifestyle of various segments of the population is parodied) and poetic cinema. The finale of the film is a tragicomic allegory of the fate of a generation of rebels and dreamers, children of the Red May of 1968.