The Unburied Man
– One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regim..
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.
21 Oct 2004
Hungarian
Márta Mészáros
Márta Mészáros (screenplay), Éva Pataki (screenplay)
Jan Nowicki, György Cserhalmi, Marianna Moór, Lili Horváth
The life story of Imre Nagy is one of the defining stories of 20th century Hungarian history. He was the first communist leader to become the symbol of a national revolution, who, in addition, withdrew from the Warsaw Treaty and stood up for democracy based on a pluralist party system. Many argue that the role he assumed in the revolution of 1956 and his continued loyalty to the notion of the revolution, which prevailed until his death, did not clearly follow from his communist convictions and his past experiences in Moscow.
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