His story is about much more than just architecture: it reveals a man whose fate ushered him through the most poignant – and most painful - moments of the 20th century.
Documentary Feature (USA/Hungary)
Directed by Réka Pigniczky
2009, 84 min.
Produced by 56 Films
…A documentary film about the transformation of an exile community nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War.This film is about growing up in an exile community in the West, developing a double-identity, and becoming a hyphenated-somebody. It’s about learning to have two homelands at the same time - one in real life, and the other imagined and maintained by parents who were forced to flee. It is about a first generation of children whose parents lived abroad longer than they originally expected to, and who never really assimilated.
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