THE HUNGARIAN PLAYBOOK

The Hungarian Playbook

Category |Current Affairs, Investigative, Media, Politics
Year | 04/22
Country | Germany
Running time | 45/52/60
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Production | Film Five GmbH
Director | Bence Maté / Áron Szentpéteri


At the heart of the European Union, an authoritarian regime has been established. A key element in consolidating its political power is a degree of media control unprecedented in an EU member state.The next elections are due in April 2022. Can the regime celebrate its fourth victory in a row thanks to its media control? Or will the unthinkable happen, the fall of the creator of the "illiberal democracy" Viktor Orbán?

"The Hungarian Playbook" examines the Don Quixote like struggle of young journalists against Prime Minister Orbán's propaganda machine, which now controls 80% of the domestic news market. They are insiders who turned against the system. They provide us with secretly made recordings and leaked documents from within the headquarters of state media that testify of a world that is held together by fear and humiliation. Internal communications prove unambiguously: public media are under the direct control of the cabinet office of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. It is a degree of censorship and content control that has not existed since the fall of the communist regime.

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