The series of events, part of the Hungarian Culture Centre in London?s ?Voice of Freedom? programme, will start with a screening of Hungarian direct Márta Mészáros?s film ?Unburied Dead?, about the life of Imre Nagy, Hungary?s prime minister during the 1956 Revolution, who was hanged afterward. After the screening, the director will speak with US film critic Catherine Portuges. After the film is shown at the Barbican, it will be screened in Liverpool and Oxford.
Visitors to the Barbican will also be able to see showings of Zoltán Fábry's ?Twenty Hours?, an important film from the 60s, Miklós Jancsó?s masterpiece ?The Round-up?, István Szabó's ?Father?, which won the Director?s Prize at Cannes and the Grand Prix in Moscow, and Károly Makk's ?Love?, winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes. In addition to the feature films, the programme will include the UK premiere of a documentary by Canadian directors Colin Keith Gray and Megan Raney Aarons entitled ?Freedom's Fury? which tells the story of the Hungarian water polo team?s famous defeat of the Soviet team at the 1956 Olympic Games. The last screening will be Géza Bereményi's ?The Midas Touch?, which will be followed by a talk with the director and John Cunningham, the author of ?Hungarian Cinema: from the Coffee House to Multiplex?.
On October 6, the Barbican will also host a round-table discussion of the 1956 Revolution in conjunction with the launch of the book ?Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 or How the Hungarians tried to Topple their Soviet Masters? by Viktor Sebestyén. Sebestyén was born in Budapest in 1955 but left the country a year later for the UK as his parents fled the Soviet tanks. After renowned British actress Susannah York reads excerpts from the book, the author will speak with former British ambassador to Hungary Sir Bryan Cartledge and the writer Duncan Shiels. Another literary event at the Barbican, slated for October 8, will involve Hungarian-born writers living in the UK, including George Szirtes, Tibor Fisher, George Gömöry and Stephen Vizinczey.
Katalin Bogyay, the head of the Hungarian Culture Centre in London and Advising Undersecretary for international relations at the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, asked Vivienne Menkes-Ivryt to curate the programme at the Barbican. Portuges selected the films.
On display in the foyer of the Barbican Library during all of October will be an exhibition of photographs of the 1956 Revolution selected from the collection of the Hungarian National Museum.
Source: Múlt-kor
