Filmmakers Fight Back Against Deepening Chill in Viktor Orban’s Hungary: ‘People Have Nothing to Lose’

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Filmmakers Fight Back Against Deepening Chill in Viktor Orban’s Hungary: ‘People Have Nothing to Lose’
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On the surface, it looks like any other teenage love story: Abel, an absent-minded high-school student in Budapest, hopelessly pines for his best friend, Erika, dreamily staring out the classroom w…

On the surface, it looks like any other teenage love story: Abel, an absent-minded high-school student in Budapest, hopelessly pines for his best friend, Erika, dreamily staring out the classroom window when the teacher calls his name. On the day of his final exam, he draws a blank: Rather than bury his head in his history books, Abel’s had his head in the clouds.

Another Hungarian production, which bows in the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival, likewise seizes on a moment of sharp political and cultural divides.

Csaba Káel, Hungary’s film commissioner and chairman of the National Film Institute, pushes back, tellingthat the NFI’s decisions are based on a range of factors including a film’s “distribution prospects, revenue predictions, cultural values, audience trends.” One example to support his claim could be the success of “Golden Legends,” Tamas S.

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