The film, which premiered a few days ago at Robert de Niro?s Tribeca Festival, focuses on the Hungarian water polo team?s legendary defeat of the Soviet team in the finals of the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. The match took place shortly after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
The 90-minute film made by Colin Keith Gray and Megan Raney Aarons, a brother and sister team from the United States is an ?intense, unsettling and uplifting cinematic experience", says Norbert Köbli, head of distribution at Best Hollywood.
Among the film?s producers are Quentin Tarantino, the actress Lucy Liu and the Hungarian-born Andrew G. Vajna, who has produced such hits as "Evita" and "Total Recall". Tarantino especially welcomed the idea for the film, calling it the ?best story never told ever?.
The film will be narrated by U.S. Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Mark Spitz.
?Freedom?s Fury? will open in Hungary on September 7, just a few weeks before the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1956 Revolution, when another feature film Vajna is producing, the much anticipated ?Children of Glory? ? about the same water polo match ? will premiere.
