70th Anniversary of the Revolution 1956 – Film Screening: Whooping Cough

70th Anniversary of the Revolution 1956 – Film Screening: Whooping Cough (Szamárköhögés, Péter Gárdos, 1987, 86’) 21 October, Wednesday, 6.00 pm, AGRFT, Ljubljana The exciting and uncertain days of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution are seen through the eyes of a child in Péter Gárdos’s film. While the children are delighted that they do not have to go to school, the adults take refuge in their apartment, listening to the radio and trying to follow and understand the events unfolding around them. Whooping Cough portrays the impact of the revolution on ordinary people with bittersweet humour and a satirical tone. The film will be screened in Hungarian with English subtitles. The program is implemented in cooperation with the Lectorate of Hungarian Language and Culture at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, with the support of the NFI.