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Director: Márta Mészáros Screenplay: Éva Pataki, Márta Mészáros Story editor: Gizela Miháliková, Miklós Jancsó Director of photography: Nyika Jancsó Editor: Éva Kármentő Music: Zygmunt Konieczny Sound: István Sipos Visual design: István Ocztos Costumes: Katalin Jancsó Production manager: Ferenc Béres Producer: Igor Hudec, Attila Csáky, Michalk Kwiecinski Production company: CameoFilm, Ars Media / SK, Telewizja Polska / PL, Akson Studio / PL Cast: Imre Csuja, Adél Kováts, Pál Mácsai, Petra Lángova, Ady Hajdu, Zoltán Csankó, Áron Őze, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Vanda Turekova, Gyula Benedek, Mariann Moór, Péter Andorai, Sándor Csányi, János Kulka, Ervin Nagy, Teri Tordai, Lili Horváth, Jan Frycz, Matej Landl, György Cserhalmi, Jan Nowicki
The life of Imre Nagy is one of the definitive stories of 20th century history. He was the first communist leader to become the symbol of a national revolution, a prime minister, a denouncer of the Warsaw Pact, and an advocate of multiparty democracy. The film makes an attempt to throw light on the life of the martyr prime minister from a different angle, and to present his story through a subjective point of view, starting from the events of 1956, going on to his execution and finally the events subsequent to his story until today.
When the Soviet troops began the siege of Budapest on the 4th November 1956, Imre Nagy and several members of his government accepted the asylum offered to them by the Yugoslav Embassy. Then they were lured out of the embassy by the offer of being given the freedom to leave, only to be kidnapped and transported to Romania. In 1957 Imre Nagy was taken back to Hungary. For fourteen months he languished in prison under inhumane conditions, and subjected to interrogations that sought to wring evidence out of him in order to justify an insane charge of treason. Throughout the hearings and the trial he consistently stood by his ideological and political convictions. He did not plead for clemency, hoping that coming generations would do his memory justice.
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.
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Festivals: 2009 - Calcutta International Film Festival - Márta Mészáros Retrospective 2007 - Thiruvananthapuram International Film Festival 2006 - Ankara Flying Broom Women's Film Festival 2006 - Milan Sguardi Altrove Film Festival 2006 - Mumbai International Film Festival 2006 - Porto FANTASPORTO 2006 - Torún TOFIFEST 2006 - Trieste Film Festival 2005 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition) 2005 - Busan International Film Festival 2005 - Copenhagen CPH:PIX 2005 - Delhi IIWFF - Retrospective 2005 - Goa International Film Festival of India 2005 - Istanbul Rendez-Vous 2005 - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (in competition) 2005 - Ljubljana International Film Festival 2005 - Montreal The World Film Festival 2005 - Palic International Film Festival 2005 - Pessac International Historic Film Festival (in competition) 2005 - Riga Baltic Pearl 2005 - Seville Film Festival 2005 - Thiruvananthapuram Kerala International Film Festival
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