HUNGARY 1956: OUR REVOLUTION

WINNER OF GRIERSON AWARD, BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY

“A POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY”

-The Daily Mail

Made for the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, the story of the country’s brief experience of freedom from hard-line communism, savagely put down by the Soviets, is told by participants rather than historians. Apart from presenting a blow-by blow account of the 13 days, richly evoked by archive films and the photographs of Magnum’s Erich Lessing, the documentary is a personal essay on the futility of revolution and the often illusory nature of human liberty.

CREDITS

Written and directed by Mark Kidel

Produced by Mark Kidel and Serge Lalou

Consultant Paul Lendvai

Research by Irene Rado-Vajda

Camera by Ned Burgess and Mark Kidel

Edited by Andrew Findlay

Les Films d’ici, ARTE France and BBC

2006 Running time: 60 mins

“The Hungarian revolution may have failed but, as Mark Kidel’s stunningly reveals, it provided a spark that ignited the Eastern bloc” - Daily Telegraph

“A valuable and compelling account” - The Times