Péter Erdélyi, Don Mirror (2003)
Film Screening and Discussion
A public screening of Péter Erdélyi’s documentary film Don Mirror followed by a discussion with the film's director and historian Krisztián Ungváry. The screening is an accompanying event of the exhibition Don: A Tragedy and its Afterlives.
Participants in the discussion:
Péter Erdélyi film director
Krisztián Ungváry, historian, 1956 Institute and Oral History Archive
Moderator: András Mink, curator of the exhibition
Péter Erdélyi’s documentary is the first serious attempt at showing the relationship between the Hungarian army on the Eastern front and the local people from the latter’s point of view. Witness memories and stories of local peasants are supplemented with Russian and Hungarian historians’ comments. When the film was made in 2003, it was deemed so controversial that none of the public or commercial television channels dared to show it.
The program is in Hungarian.