World-famous actor gives exclusive interview about the upcoming film "1242 - At the Gates of the West”

Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts gave an exclusive interview to Hír TV's "Radar". The production, which is being filmed in the Visegrád citadel for a month with a cast of international stars that promises to be the most outstanding work in decades, takes us back to the time when the Kingdom of Hungary was on the brink of destruction due to the invasion of the Mongol Empire.

Sándor Bauer sacrificed his life for Hungarian freedom - Gábor Horváth-Lugossy, Director General of the Institute of Hungarian Research, places a wreath of respect on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Sándor Bauer

 

The Institute of Hungarian Research has reinstated the genuine past of the nation, restoring the truths of our chronicles

Published in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet, Balázs Ágoston's comprehensive overview entitled “Body and soul of the nation - Hungarians have straightened up after a hundred years of stooping and want to live again" sees the key to the survival of Hungary in the healing of the national soul and the restoration of our national consciousness.

 

On 20 January 1969, Sándor Bauer, aged only 17, set himself on fire in the Museum Garden in protest against communist tyranny and Soviet occupation. Since his childhood, his thoughts and character had been shaped by the trauma of the bloody suppression of the 1956 revolution, and he decided to fight against tyranny. Following the example set by Jan Palach, a student from Prague a few days earlier, he chose the symbolic site of the National Museum to pour petrol on his clothes and act as a living torch to protest against communist oppression.

The Kádár regime feared that the martyrdom of the freedom hero could reignite the flame of the revolution and that the funeral ceremony would turn into an anti-establishment mass demonstration, so the service was only allowed to take place in a small family circle under the supervision of state security. Sándor Bauer's deed could not receive much publicity, as his sacrifice was dangerous for the regime, and the political police of the Kádár regime even brought proceedings against those who commemorated him on 15 March. His example was followed - a year after his martyrdom - by Márton Moyses from Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfântu Gheorghe, RO).

“I would like to live but now it's my charred corpse the nation needs.” “…Showing how a scrawny teenager can become a colossus of flame built of robust fire beams…” (Kornél Döbrentei: Torch)

Sándor Bauer set an example for our nation as a living torch, the self-sacrificing patriotism and memory of the last young freedom fighter will be cherished.