First feature film from Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó', The Bells Have Gone to Rome (1958) tells a story about a group of secondary s chool students during the last days of the War. This film has remained almost unnoticed as a fluid piece of lyrical realism flourishing in contemporary Eastern Europe. This lack of interest in the film is itself relevant. The attribute "lyrical" helps us to perceive some of the basic structural peculiarities of this tendency on a practical level and makes more understandable the meaning of some former tendencies in film, such as neorealism.