Seven episodes of 1972 Hungarian television that nobody asked for but history kept anyway.
Season 1 • Episode 7
LatestHungarian mini-series.
Production
1972 Hungarian state television budget doing absolute maximum with minimum.
Acting
Ferenc Bessenyei bringing Shakespearean gravity to nationalist hero Pál Görgey.
Creator
Éva Zsurzs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1848 Hungarian Revolution was the largest of Europe's Springtime of Peoples, yet this 1972 adaptation arrived during 'Goulash Communism'—a brief thaw when Hungary could cautiously celebrate national history without triggering Soviet suspicion.
Director Éva Zsurzs was Hungarian television's first female director and specialized in literary adaptations; this was her most ambitious historical project, shot largely in reconstructed period locations with military museum artifacts as props.
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