Szabo's new film

The young writer Eszter Babarczy went to see Istvan Szabo's new film "Rokonok" ("Relations"). It was the opening film at the Hungarian Film Week in Budapest. Just a few days before the festival started, Szabo's Stasi past was revealed. Babarczy describes the effect of the film's moral message not to cooperate with power structures in the light of these revelations. "The political systems of the recent past have suppressed public debate and robbed society of the opportunity to tell its stories and confront its dilemmas... The Stasi affairs and corruption scandals show how ambivalent and half-hearted the moral standards which have been handed down to us really are."

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