Cselszövők, hazugságok, hősüzem - A NER kurzusfilmjei | Régen minden jobb volt #9

What happens when a historical film no longer asks questions about the past, but instead tells us what to think about it? When uncertainty, contradiction, and human frailty are replaced by heroes, schemers, and pre-packaged lessons?

There was a time when Hungarian cinema sought to understand history’s perplexing questions. Then came the NER’s mass production of heroes, in which nearly every era is accompanied by an irreproachable Hungarian and a dark shadow cast on the wall—someone from abroad, or at least from the opposing political camp, who is just about to pull the plug on the decorative lighting of Hungarian history.