| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
An eight-year chronicle of the filmmaker's Hungarian father - Steven Bognar's work chronicles the profound displacement of his immigrant dad, Bela Bognar. In 1956, young Bela Bognar took up a rifle against Soviet tanks in his hometown Budapest. He fought alongside thousands of other women and men. But their revolt failed. With no time to spare, Bela fled Hungary, walking across the border with only the things he could carry. Decades later, Bela finds himself a middle class American, married, with two kids, a ranch home and an increasing sense he made the wrong decision. The film is an intimate story of an émigré of 1956 who now speaks about tumultuous changes in his family's life, community and national identity in exile.
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