The Charmed Life of Kázmér Rezeda

"Here's to war!" toasts a hollowly resounding voice at the next to the last peacetime New Year's Eve at a fashionable hotel on a Budapest boulevard in 1912. Unheeding, the carefree crowd frolics at these last Sylvester's Eve revels before the Great War that would sweep away the operetta and whipped cream world of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy. Only one person hears that ominous subterranean voice. Kázmér Rezeda, the promising young journalist, who on this evening meets the glamorous Fruzsina Kaiser, a fiery and neurotic married woman eager to launch a liaison with a rising young author...