Filmmaker Peter Rudolf on confronting the Communist Past

Following the revelations about Istvan Szabo's Stasi past, the Es Magazin has now exposed two further prominent public figures as former Stasi informants: Cardinal Laszlo Paskai and filmmaker Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs. Filmmaker Peter Rudolf comments in an interview led by Andras Stumpf : "The Stasi scandals are only trickling into the public domain. That's a terrible thing. Moral judgement can only be passed once we know who was an informant, who had to suffer as a result, and why. Only once a case has been thoroughly clarified can we forgive. Besides, up to now only those who were blackmailed have been put in the pillory; we still know nothing about those who did the blackmailing. These Stasi affairs usually have a complex, murky background, and that won't change because we didn't stage a revolution 16 years ago. It's good that the change of system was made peacefully, but it has had its price."

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