
This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years following the fall of Napoleon the young count Széchenyi irresponsibly seduces his brother's wife, and the consequent scandal ruins his career as an army officer. After the sudden death of his humiliated lover Count Széchenyi drastically changes his character from that of a shallow young man into a responsible nobleman seeking to conquer his fate by creating great achievements in his remaining life.

as Count István Széchenyi

as Lajos Kossuth

as Lajos Batthyányi

as Miklós Wesselényi

as Karl Clam-Martinitz

as Metternich

as Caroline Mead

as Pál Széchenyi

as Lajos Széchenyi

as Felsenthal

as Necosek

as Count Zichy

as Dr. Coenget

as Mihály Kiss

as Countess Széchenyi

as Thierry

as János Bohus


as Franz Joseph