Children of Glory
(2006)
Directed by Krisztina
Goda this film stars Kata Dobo, Ivan Fenyo, Sandor Csanyi and Karoly
Gesztesi. A young water polo player on the Hungarian national team
ahead of the 1956 Olympics gets caught up in the political uprising
in Hungary during the same year.
While this film tells
a fictional story it reflects a lot of moments of real history which
it thankfully does without any claims of being a true story. The film
does a good job of showing the repressive nature of living under the
thumb of the Soviet state against the desire for freedom. Largely the
film is well made and does not give in to over sentimentality or
melodrama.
4/5
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