i fear this film highlight one the most dramatic event in modern history would be hamper by bare stage set and other shortcoming result from short funding in hungary and or the portrayal of event would be mar by national self pity . it turn out to be nothing short of a well balance and historically correct film that arouse great curiosity about what go on in the street of budapest ( and elsewhere in hungary ) in october and november 1956 and and in my mind provokes enormous sympathy for the hungarian civilian at the time and and the country in general . director kata dobo have have every good reason to use certain element familiar to commercial western film . it be an important story that should reach a wider audience . far too many probably know little or nothing about these event . the olympic game and the need for love be parallel story in the film which we all understand and and yet be not melodramatic . this leave u to grasp just what the turmoil of revolution and secret police reprisal and finally the deaf ear of the west be about . i can imagine the hungarian involve in make this film have put their soul into it . the least we can do be to listen this time to what they have to say . the film once over and i can not imagine anyone not get the message . it be inevitable that a film portray a revolution without the massive ( and often excessive ) funding of western film and can only show example of key ingredient the molotov cocktail and conviction and doubt and russian brutality and divided loyalty and chaotic emergency service and daredevil teenager and family division and honesty and deception . these true aspect come across not only sufficiently and but well and especially one of the most noteworthy of them represent the woman at the forefront of the fighting . the modest colouring be in tact with the time and and the mood . the observer be carry from one realistic scene to the another as quickly a the bewilder swiftness of the revolution must have unfold at the time . at the time and in fear of make the cold war colder and the leader of the west and with president eisenhower at the top of the list and support for the hungarian cry for freedom be shamefully guard and but a the scene from the melbourne olympics demonstrate and public opinion be not unguarded . this film present an excellent opportunity for some to recall what really happen in hungary in 1956 and for others a first insight . luckily the jury of the berlin international film festival seize the opportunity .