★ ★ ★ 1956 Hungarian Film Festival: October 4th – November 6th, 2016 ★ ★ ★
The Embassy of Hungary presents
Journey Home (Hazatérés)
A story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Official Selection of the Seattle International Film Festival (2007)
Sixty years ago this October, Hungarian Freedom Fighters as young as seventeen and eighteen took the streets of Budapest in protest of the Soviet-installed Hungarian government. Although the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was eventually crushed, meeting the full might of the Soviet empire, for a few short weeks Hungary and Hungarians everywhere stood tall in the long shadow of Communism.
Immediately Following: Q&A with Co-Director Eszti Pigniczky
Winner of the Best Investigative Film Award at the Film.Dok Festival in 2007, Journey Home (Hazatérés) tells the story of the Revolutionaries through the eyes of children Réka and her sister Eszti as they learn more about their father's role in the 1956 Revolution. The story unfolds as the women take their father's ashes from the U.S. to Hungary to fulfill his dying wish – to be buried in his native land he fled from after 1956.
Time: Tuesday, October 4th at 7:00 PM – Free Admission
Venue: Embassy of Hungary: 2950 Spring of Freedom, NW, Washington DC, 20008
Complimentary minivan service to and from the Embassy from Van Ness/UDC Metro Station (Red Line) will be provided before and after the screening.
Q&A discussion to be accompanied by a selection of wine and cheese. All are warmly invited, please bring a friend! RSVP at rsvp.was@mfa.gov.hu.
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