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Journey Home: a story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Journey Home: a story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
English title:
Journey Home: a story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Hungarian title:
Hazatérés: egy szabadságharcos története
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
Hungary - hu
Year of production:
from 2004 to 2006
Year of shooting:
from 2004 to 2006
Length of the film:
88 min
Colouring:
colour
Recording format:
DV
Original language:
English
Hungarian
Language of subtitle:
Hungarian
English
Description of the content
A journey by two American women to bury their father’s ashes in Hungary turns into a quest to find out exactly what he did as a 'freedom fighter' there during the revolution of 1956. This compelling and personal story is told in the first person by the director, whose father never returned to Hungary after fleeing in 1956. Journey Home is a documentary film about two sisters who try to find out what their father did as a freedom fighter during the Hungarian revolution of 1956. The story unfolds as the women take their father’s ashes from the U.S. to Hungary to fulfill his dying request to be buried in his native land, a place to which he never returned after fleeing in 1956. The journey veers off course when the sisters realize that their father’s role in Hungary’s uprising was never really questioned – and never really documented. Maybe it never happened. Taking place in Budapest a half-century after the fateful events that took nearly 3,000 lives and forced more than 200,000 Hungarians to emmigrate, Journey Home documents László Pigniczky’s daughters as they take a personal – sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous – trek into the history of 1956. Armed only with their deceased father’s vague anecdotes and their own curiosity about the past, they try to piece together the puzzle of their father’s role in Hungary’s seemingly futile battle against the Soviet Union. They find out far more than they hoped for, although their father’s story takes a number of unexpected turns along the way. By the end of the film, his journey home has become their own emotional journey to understand their father and the events that shaped both his life and their own upbringing.
Credits
Director:
Réka Pigniczky
Expert:
János Rainer
Producer:
Réka Pigniczky
Barnabás Gerő
Dramaturg:
Pierre Francois
Cinematographer:
Gergő Kiss
Editor:
László Hargittai
Közreműködő:
Eszter Pigniczky
Company / Institution
Production:
56 Films
Pige Bt.
Distributor:
56 Films
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
Hungarian
Continent:
East Europe
Country:
Hungary - hu
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Related sciences
Social science:
history
Keyword:
family
migration
death
Documents
dialoguelist
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