The original film, titled The Death of Dracula (Drakula Halála) was producesd in 1921 as a Hungarian-Austrian-French co-production, one year before F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu. Given its production date, it may be considered the first Dracula" film in the world. The original negative and copies of the film were destroyed during the Second World War. Although the original screenplay could not be located, a book of the same title was published by Lajos Pánczél after the film's release. A reproduction of the script was created based on the book, and then this "remake" of the original film shot using the reproduced script.
In 1957 the Soviet Union decides to give Hungary the chance to choose the world's first cosmonaut, who can be the very first person in space. It seems like the best candidate is Lajkó, the gypsy spraying pilot.
The hidden messages in a famed, mysterious painting by Hans Holbein the Younger are slowly revealed to an art restorer hired to reproduce it.
A single mother's struggle to support her child leads her into the surreal netherworld of illegal sexual enterprises, with her finally ending up in the Bibliothèque Pascal; an elegant but bizarre house of prostitution in which men can re-enact sexual scenarios inspired by great works of literature for a hefty fee.
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