...A documentary film about the transformation of an exile community nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War.
Journey Home
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything this good. ... The American style of cinematic storytelling is masterful... The scenes are hard-hitting. The people are human.”
Béla István Szabó (Gondola.hu)
“This is real drama, you couldn’t have made this up. Just like you couldn’t have made up the follow-through, the reconciliation , the happy ending and the journey home, which is one of the most traumatic and simultaneously most uplifting moments we’ve seen on screen lately.”
György Báron, Filmvilág
“I found myself choked up for 40 out of the film’s 88 minutes, because everything the movie had to say about the revolution, its aftermath, about émigré Hungarians both now and after the revolution, about memory and about our children – everything spoke to me personally, as an individual.”
Klára Varga, Magyar Nemzet (Hungarian national daily broadsheet)
“Of the large number of films produced on the occasion of the revolution’s 50th anniversary, Journey Home is probably unique, for it focuses on the story of a single individual... using documentary techniques.
András Kósa (Hírszerzô.hu)
Only nine women are left in Kazár who still wear the village’s folk costume – and only they know how to pass on its legend…
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