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?Children of Glory? frames the events of ?56 in Budapest with the stories of players on the Hungarian national water polo team. The film starts with a match between the Hungarian and Soviet national water polo teams in the USSR and climaxes with the Hungarian team?s legendary defeat of the Soviet team at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
The film, produced by Andrew G. Vajna, was the most popular Hungarian film in 2006, the 50th anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising.
Vajna, who moved to the United States at age 12, on the same day as the Olympic match between Hungary and the USSR, said earlier that ?Children of Glory? uses an emotional approach, rather than a political one, to show the impact of the revolution on young people. "I would like this film and its message to reach young people so that they can feel proud of their country's history," Vajna said.
