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Watch Online / A szamizdatról (TV Movie 1989)
Desc: A szamizdatról: Directed by Ferenc Moldoványi. With József Csikos, Ferenc Kõszeg, Ákos Mester, Jeno Nagy. In the eighties the samizdat was the main tool of the underground democratic opposition to express their views. These illegal newspapers were passed from person to person in intellectual circles. The editors and publishers of the samizdat were often harassed by the police. This television program made by Ferenc Moldovanyi at the Academy of Film and Theater (Budapest) at the end of 1988, in which a well-known journalist Ákos Mester is the moderator of a discussion with the participation of the samizdat authors-editors-publishers, Ferenc Koszeg and Jeno Nagy and one of the leaders of the "information policy department" of the communist party (MSZMP) József Csikós. Following lengthy debates, the film was finally broadcast by Hungarian Television, late night in the March of 1989. It was very well received by audiences and in Filmkultúra (a Hungarian film-review) the broadcast of the program was declared as having historical importance in the country's television chronicle. Later on the complete text of the film was published in Magyar Sajtó (the magazine of Association of Hungarian Journalists).