Freytág testvérek (1989)

Plot Summary

Few writers today tackle sweeping, multigenerational family sagas, work that demands vast life experience and insight. József Attila Prize–winner Árpád Thiery has done just that: his two published volumes of the Freytág Siblings’ story (1943 through the late 1960s) have been adapted by Hungarian Television into a five-part series slated for January 1989, and he’s already completed the trilogy’s final installment. Thiery describes it as a historical family novel, tracing postwar Hungary, from the Stalinist 1950s and the 1956 uprising’s aftermath to the upheavals of 1968, while celebrating freedom, truth, hope, boundless faith and innocent responsibility.

Full Cast & Characters

György Dörner

Péter Blaskó

Barbara Hegyi

Erzsi Máthé

Imre Sinkovits

Tibor Szilágyi

Zoltán Varga

Hédi Temessy

Olivér Csendes

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