Requiem for the Revolution

John Wyver writes: Disconcertingly, Robert Vas’ powerful, poetic documentary essay My Homeland (1976) begins in silence. The silence of the censored and oppressed. The silence of the early morning before the tanks rolled into Budapest nearly 70 years ago. The silence of the grave. Made for BBC Television’s Omnibus strand to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution and its brutal suppression by the Soviets, My Homeland is receiving an exceptionally rare screening for the 70th anniversary at London’s Liszt Institute , the Hungarian Cultural Centre on Trafalgar Square, next Tuesday, 3 November. The film will be introduced by Dr Eleni Liarou (Birkbeck, University of London), and will be followed by a discussion with Eleni, Professor James Jordan (University of Southampton), Hungarian-born poet, writer and academic, György Gömöri and moderated by the Director of Liszt Institute London, Botond Zákonyi. Tickets are free and can be reserved here. Robert Vas (1931-1978) was a…