General information

Call No.:

206-2-1:7/1

Part of series

HU OSA 206-2-1 Records of the Open Society Archives at Central European University: Exhibitions at the Open Society Archives: Audio-Visual Research Materials from Multiple Sources

Located at

VHS PAL #7 / No. 1

Original Title

[Petőfi expedíció Barguzin, Szibéria]

Date of production

1985

Date

1985

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Hungarian

Duration

4 hours

Notes

206/t239/0/8

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Sándor Petőfi is a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is believed to have lost his life in the Battle of Segesvár, one of the last battles of the war.
In the late 1980s Soviet investigators found archives that revealed that after the battle at Segesvár about 1,800 Hungarian prisoners of war were marched to Siberia. Some suggest that Petőfi was one of them. In 1990, an expedition was organized to Barguzin, Siberia, where archaeologists claimed to have unearthed Petőfi's skeleton.