Hyacinth (2021)

Film Screening and Talk with Andrzej Selerowicz

February 16, 2022 6:00 PM –
February 16, 2022 6:00 PM

Still from the film “Hyacinth” (2021)

Film screening of the film “Hyacinth” (2021) followed by a talk with Andrzej Selerowicz, a Polish LGBT activist living in Vienna.

Type Events

Genre film screening and roundtable discussion

In cooperation with

Háttér Archívum és Könyvtár / Háttér Archive and Library

Related exhibition(s)

Records Uncovered Records Uncovered 2.0

Related event(s)

Records Uncovered 2.0 – Exhibition Opening Records Uncovered 2.0 – Curatorial Guided Tour in Hungarian Records Uncovered 2.0 – Curatorial Guided Tour in English The Opening Event of the 10th LGBT History Month “With Love from Bettina” – The Beginning of Trans Activism in Hungary Coming Out and Documentary Literature Uncovered Connecting gays and lesbians behind the Iron Curtain: the role of HOSI Hyacinth (2021) Records Uncovered 2.0 – Curatorial guided tour in Hungarian Records Uncovered 2.0 – Curatorial Guided Tour in English Records Uncovered – Online Exhibition Opening

Summary

Film screening of the film “Hyacinth” (2021) followed by a talk with Andrzej Selerowicz, a Polish LGBT activist living in Vienna.

Hyacinth (2021)
feature film (English with Hungarian subtitles), 112’
directed by Piotr DOMALEWSKI
The program will be in Hungarian and English.

Unsatisfied with the result of a homicide investigation in Warsaw’s gay community, an officer in 1980s Communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth. But what is the truth about the alleged Hyacinth files? Are the police really monitoring, listing, and harassing gays? Can we find out who is behind the murders? After the film, we talk to Andrzej Selerowicz, a Polish LGBT activist living in Vienna, who wrote the first book on the subject.

Host: Berta Boglárka

The program will be in English.