Fortress Europe
Yugoslavia 2001, see: Transitmigration.org/homearchiv.html;
People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and "European" rules. Starting from reality, the director reconstructed some stories and chose the cast both among people who experienced them and fledgling actors. They reconstruct these stories, and perhaps fake them, through the answers they give to the (Hungarian, Slovenian, Italian and Croatian) custom officers and to the author's questions.
From Home to Home
Hungary 2004, 104 min., Hungarian with English Subtitles
D: Tamas Almasi, Borbala Kriza, Zsuzsanna Varga
Today, Hungarians born outside of Hungary are the largest immigrant
group in Hungary. Back in the 80s, as a “more developed and more democratic”
country, Hungary was a dreamland for many Hungarians living
elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc. The film presents stories of four Hungarians
who resettled to the “motherland” in 1980-1991 in search of a better life.
Different customs and different patterns of socializing made it difficult for
those immigrants to blend in and to become Hungarians in Hungary.
Nyóckerby
Animation Movie, Hungary, 2004, 90 min.
D: Áron Gauder
Nyóckerby is an animation movie on the conflicts between different Hungarian minorities and the municipality in the eight district of Budapest, commonly known as the Roma ghetto.
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