- Uncensored version: In a longer scene, you can see how in the prison they talk about the thousand years of existence of the Catholic Church and the few years of socialism in comparison. In this version, they don't smoke in prison. Comrade Pelikán visits Zoltán Dániel in prison, where he has already been completely broken. As a result, Pelikán decides to testify. When the guard takes Pelikan to the place of execution, upon their arrival, in the uncensored version, the camera also shows the gallows ready for execution. At the end of the prison scene, the guard tells Pelikán: Get out of here, because I'm going to rage!. Instead of "I get angry", he originally said: "I shoot you in the ass", but due to censorship, it had to be dubbed over, but you can read the original, more stylistic text from his mouth. In the uncensored version, it can be heard with the original text. The last scene, in which Comrade Pelikán and Virág meet on the tram, was completely cut out (because it had to be inserted later, for ideological reasons, due to the positive ending). Therefore, the film ends with Pelican wandering around the big city uncertainly. He stops next to a young man reading a newspaper and asks what day it is, then what month it is. He tells him, but Pelikán even inquires about Duna's position, and the young man asks if Pelikán should also be his bride. In this version, the Marx quote is at the beginning of the film between the cast list and the Attila József quote.
- Two versions of the film exist, a "censored" and an "uncensored" version. The communist authorities forced director Péter Bacsó to cut some scenes and insert other, newly-shot scenes. The original uncensored "director's cut" was restored several years later. In the censored version, the scene of Pelikán discussing politics with Gulyás and the Priest in prison, comparing the thousand years of existence of the Catholic Church and the few years of communism, was replaced by a different scene where Pelikán defends the communist system, telling his cellmates that despite the hardships several new things have been built in the country and "peasants all go to factories now instead of churches". In the new scene, the characters are smoking cigars in prison and Pelikán claims the communist prison system is much more comfortable than the one they used to have in the Horthy-era. The scene of Pelikán visiting Zoltán Dániel in prison, where he has already been completely broken, was entirely cut from the censored version. When the guard takes Pelikán to the place of execution, upon their arrival, in the uncensored version, the camera also shows the gallows ready for execution. A line of the prison guard when Pelikán is released with a pardon instead of being executed was re-dubbed in the censored version. In the uncensored version the guard says "Get out or I shoot you in the ass!", while in the censored version he says "Get out or I'll be angry!". An extra final scene was filmed and added to the censored version where Pelikán and Virág accidentally meet on a tram several years after the events of the film, to imply that both of them survived the Stalinist dictatorship of the early 1950s. This scene was removed from the uncensored version where the film ends with Pelikán being released from prison and wandering aimlessly in downtown Budapest. In the uncensored version the quote by Karl Marx was moved from the end of the film to the beginning.
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