IMPORTANT FILM EVENTS!!! HUNGARIAN FILM DAYS!

From: Bényi Edit - LOS At mid-century, Hungary found itself politically and economically isolated, especially after the Communist government's complicity with the brutal Soviet crackdown on the citizens' uprising of 1956. This eye-opening event initiated a 30-year period of growing disenchantment with Soviet influence, marked by increased Hungarian engagement with Western nations and a greater liberalization of Hungarian domestic institutions-including the government-controlled film industry, which was gradually decentralized. The stage was set then for Hungary's momentous 1989 demolition of the fences on its Western border and the opening of the border to international refugees (especially from East Germany), presaging the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hungarian filmmakers dramatized, with immediacy and passion, the thrill and complexities of his unique moment in history. In the years following 1989, they produced a wealth of moving social documents as new and established filmmakers set about reconsidering the Communist cast, and registering the dawn of a new international order. WE ASK YOU TO INFORM ALL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THESE EVENTS!!!!!! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!! All details: http://arpad.com/BEYONDTHEIRONCURTAIN.PDF Ticket info: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/screenings/tickets.html #end