{"id":2768,"date":"2019-03-10T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2023-11-06T21:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T02:16:28","slug":"fight-for-freedom-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/fight-for-freedom-a-great-success\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fight for Freedom&#8221; \u2013 a Great Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>docudrama by Roz\u00e1lia B. Bresty\u00e1nsz<\/em>ki<\/p>\n<p>played by <strong>B\u00e9la K\u00e1ll\u00f3<\/strong> and <strong>P\u00e9ter L\u00f3r\u00e1nt T\u00f3th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Centered on the relatively short lived, but all the more profound friendships  of two of the giants of Hungarian Literature: the ebullient radical patriot poet, S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi, who dedicated his life to the anti-Hapsburg Revolution of 1848-49, losing it on the battlefields of Transylvania at the tender age of 26, fighting alongside the legendary Polish General, Josef Bem; and that of the more sedate, insecure, no less of a patriot, family man J\u00e1nos Arany, who lived an incomparably longer life, content with his position of a provincial notary. He  faithfuly took under his wing his rascal friend\u2019s widow and infant child, then managed to create and leave behind a towering body of work, decades later, matching Pet\u0151fi\u2019s opus in epic poetry.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Excerpt from the theatrical play <a href=\"http:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/events\/fight-for-freedom\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Figth for Freedom<\/a> as presented on March 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019 at the Ottawa Hungarian Community Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mQZQuSWbbHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>(Recording by G\u00e1bor Finta)\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The written material was aptly arranged in a dramatic flow of exchanges by the young dramaturg of Szabadka\u2019s Popular Theatre (B\u00e1cska, present-day Serbia), Roz\u00e1lia Boros Bresty\u00e1nski, and it relies on contemporary records, memoirs, anecdotes, diaries, and the written correspondence between the poets and their friends and relatives. The novelty of the approach  consisted in the successful attempt of the performers to present the more or less known material as a true-to-life happening, as an exercise in verismo. They appeared in front of us as two young men, with their hopes and doubts, with their undeserved failures and incipient achievements, insecure of their future, which for one them never played out, never occured. They both had made a conscientious choice: one challenging his fate, the other assuming a more conciliatory, subdued position. It was their own pathway to Heaven, and now, they are finally free of worries and wars, hopes and angst, i.e. earthly life, they are the courtiers of Mnemosyne, Goddess of Remembrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>docudrama by Roz\u00e1lia B. Bresty\u00e1nszki played by B\u00e9la K\u00e1ll\u00f3 and P\u00e9ter L\u00f3r\u00e1nt T\u00f3th Centered on the relatively short lived, but all the more profound friendships of two of the giants of Hungarian Literature: the ebullient radical patriot poet, S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi, who dedicated his life to the anti-Hapsburg Revolution of 1848-49, losing it on the battlefields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,5],"tags":[],"views":1852,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omh-ohcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}