General Information

Author/Creator

Bognar, Steven, director.

Language

English.

Published

United States, 1996.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (52 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00004152

Contents/Summary

Summary

An eight-year chronicle of the filmmaker's Hungarian father - Steven Bognar's work chronicles the profound displacement of his immigrant dad, Bela Bognar. In 1956, young Bela Bognar took up a rifle against Soviet tanks in his hometown Budapest. He fought alongside thousands of other women and men. But their revolt failed. With no time to spare, Bela fled Hungary, walking across the border with only the things he could carry. Decades later, Bela finds himself a middle class American, married, with two kids, a ranch home and an increasing sense he made the wrong decision. The film is an intimate story of an émigré of 1956 who now speaks about tumultuous changes in his family's life, community and national identity in exile.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Soros Documentary Fund

Library Special Collection

Soros Documentary Fund

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2536	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2536 (HU_OSA_00004152.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format