The film version of Viktor Rákosi's novel. A prominent figure in Hungarian literary life at the turn of the century, Rákosi began his career as a journalist under the pseudonym Sipulusz, working as an in-house staff member of the Budapest Hírlap. In 1894, he founded and edited the highly successful Márton Kakas, a tabloid newspaper. While Sipulusz was keeping two generations amused with his charming jokes, narratives and wallets, Viktor Rákosi began to write serious works, lofty, patriotic narratives and novels. In 1899, he published a volume of short stories entitled The Rotted Wooden Crosses, which glorified the anonymous heroes of the 1848 War of Independence. In 1903, he wrote The Mute Bells, the writer's patriotic lament for the Hungarian nation of Transylvania, which was being destroyed.