Storytellers is an ongoing attempt to tease out bits of history or literature that would make damned good films. Because if we throw enough ideas out there, Hollywood might accidentally make something good.
In 1956, a funny little thing happened in the People's Republic of Hungary. The people tried to take back their republic.
The country was in a catastrophic economic crisis and the hard line communist government gave way to a more lenient one. Not liberal or free by any stretch of the imagination, but just looser enough that people began to speak again. Radio Free Europe crackled through the jamming on hidden radios, never quite promising that help would come though that was the message many heard in the silence between sentences. On the 23rd of October, students assembled to protest, tearing down a colossal statue of Stalin, leaving only the boots standing. Over the course of the day,...
In 1956, a funny little thing happened in the People's Republic of Hungary. The people tried to take back their republic.
The country was in a catastrophic economic crisis and the hard line communist government gave way to a more lenient one. Not liberal or free by any stretch of the imagination, but just looser enough that people began to speak again. Radio Free Europe crackled through the jamming on hidden radios, never quite promising that help would come though that was the message many heard in the silence between sentences. On the 23rd of October, students assembled to protest, tearing down a colossal statue of Stalin, leaving only the boots standing. Over the course of the day,...
- 10/27/2010
- by Steven Lloyd Wilson
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