Directed by:
Attila SzászScreenplay:
Norbert KöbliCinematography:
András NagyComposer:
Gergely ParádiCast:
János Kulka, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, József Kádas, Rozi Lovas, Rémusz Szikszai, László I. Kish, Móni Balsai, Ádám Lábodi, Mariann Szalay, László Katona (more)VOD (1)
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One of the most dramatic attempts by an Eastern European nation to defy Soviet control during the Cold War period took place in Hungary in 1956.
On August 16, 1958, two Hungarian immigrants break into the Hungarian embassy in Bern and take the ambassador hostage. As the Swiss police besiege the building and a group of Hungarian immigrants shows up on the street to demonstrate, a tense, twist-filled hostage drama plays out behind the closed doors of the embassy.
Based on a true story about the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the film is a fictional account of the 1958 attack against the Hungarian embassy in Bern.
(IFF Bratislava)
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Hungarian history is not very well-known to me, so I welcome every film from their historical period. The Bern Ambassador has an interesting subject, he gets straight to the point and keeps the tension with his length from beginning to end. What more could you want. Another Hungarian piece that deserves attention.
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