A City's Birthday Celebrations

Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".

Short by Ferdinand Khittl commissioned by BASF about the use of magnetic tape.

A look back on Hungarian history ends in the bloody present of October 1956: The suppression of the uprising in Budapest, filmed from the point of view of those affected. The material was smuggled abroad and assembled there by refugee filmmakers. A direct contemporary document which at the end reflects the powerlessness of the West: Nobody came to help.