"It's a tale of friendship and survival that has become legend in Hollywood," Michael Goldman wrote in the LA Times of No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos.
The film, directed by James Chressanthis, is being broadcast on PBS stations around the United States.
"Two young Hungarians meet while studying cinema in Budapest and become swept up in the abortive Hungarian Revolution of 1956, risking their lives to film scenes of violent Soviet repression," Goldman said. "After a harrowing journey secreting the footage out of the country so it can be seen by the rest of the world, they end up in Los Angeles, where they toil anonymously in B-level biker films, wandering into Roger Corman's orbit. Soon after, both men flash to prominence filming several classic movies, playing important roles in the New Hollywood movement of the late '60s and '70s."
In the New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz wrote that the film was "about a friendship between men who shared certain unusual, difficult experiences, and how those experiences shaped their art."
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
