11 Films & TV Shows Set In Hungary During The 1950s
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Torn from the Flag
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sA sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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Children of Glory
🇭🇺 Hungary Victoria The 1950sChildren of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.
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An American Rhapsody
California 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOne family struggles for survival, for justice, for freedom. — A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.
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Sunshine
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950s The 19th CenturyIn a time of revolution, in a family torn by tradition, one man was consumed by love. — The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
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Another Way
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sPolitical and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
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In Praise Of Older Women
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe story that turned on millions of PLAYBOY Magazine readers in the October issue. — Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
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Ten Thousand Days
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sThe changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin their story in the 1930s, through World War II, and the decade beyond the communist invasion of 1956.
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The Secret Ways
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOn-the-spot realism! — Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!
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I sogni muoiono all'alba
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sFive Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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The Journey
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sA Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
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The Beast of Budapest
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe Teenage Legions Of Bloody Glory! — Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.
