The Last Words Spoken
The Criminal Case of Imre Nagy and his Accomplices
The 70-minute long propaganda film was produced by the Film Studio of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior using segments of the footage shot at the Imre Nagy trial as well as excerpts from other films. Eventually, the film was never publicly screened, the raw material and the other edited version were destroyed in 1961.
The remaining version was added to the trial documents, and discovered only in 1989, during the course of the retrial. While it was never broadcast on television, excerpts from it were used by many later documentaries, and a number of illegal copies exist.
The English subtitled version was prepared for this occasion.
The film will be introduced by historian János M. Rainer.
The film will be screened with English subtitles; the introduction will be made in Hungarian.