Life is a dance – but you don’t get to choose the music.

Steve, a dancer-turned-impresario, returns from Canada to his native Hungary after 20 years. He finds that the Communist regime that expelled him is gone, but his brother, Gyula, hasn’t changed. He still works with the same cash-strapped dance company they started together and is married to Steve’s former sweetheart, Mari. The two men’s rivalry is triggered instantly, but Mari challenges them to revive their last success together, a dance on the ballad, THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH.

Love and politics unfold to the vivacious rhythm of folkloric Hungarian dance when THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH. Screen Actors Guild award recipient Endre Hules’ auspicious film debut combines dramatic scenes with dance and music, seamlessly slipping from one into another. Where the words fail, the dance takes over, revealing long-held secrets and emotions the protagonists kept even from themselves, furthering an examination of the individual‘s social responsibility in old and new Europe. With breathtaking cinematography by Academy Award-winner Vilmos Zsigmond (THE DEER HUNTER).