i did not even think about death. but [indistinct] going through that, i should be. anybody with a camera was shot. immediately. that time, i did not think about it. i found out [indistinct] anthony: you were alive and holding a camera at a very important time in history. it is very easy to make beautiful pictures. but pictures which mean something more than what is in it. that is a totally different story. i took a walk through this beautiful world the league felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something pure in this beautiful world i felt the rain on my shoulders anthony: you know these images. you grew up with them. they are burned into your brain. they are iconic sequences. framed and seen through the lens in ways that change the filmmaking forever. all made by the same man. so who made these beautiful things? where did he come from? it did not begin in hollywood. it began here in the streets of budapest. what about his life, his past, his upbr
anthony: the russians had been beaten back for a time but now they double down with a vengeance, pouring tanks and troops and heavy armor back into budapest and rudely and all too effectively put down the resistance. help never came. this is a place where a lot of things happen. used to be that headquarters. i never saw this before. so this is the first time i m going in this building. anthony: so this was the internal secret police. yes. anthony: so if someone came at night with a van, you ended up being interrogated here? yes. anthony: secret police headquarters in 1956. the site of a firefight between slippers on the roof and their fellow citizens below. and the people got into the building. they held them. they brought them down. they killed them actually. they hung them on the streets.
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anthony: the russians had been beaten back for a time, but now they doubled down with a vengeance. pouring tanks and troops and heavy armor back into budapest and brutally, and all too effectively, put down the resistance. help never came. vilmos: i mean this, this is a place where a lot of things happened, used to be the avh headquarters. i never shot this before so, this is probably the first time i m going to get this building shot. anthony: so this was the internal secret police. so, if someone came at night vilmos: yes. anthony: with a van and you were taken away, you ended up being interrogated here. vilmos: yes. anthony: secret police headquarters in 1956. the sight of a firefight between snipers on the roof, and their fellow citizens below. vilmos: and then the people got into the building, went up there, hauled them, brought them down, and killed them, actually. basically hanged them on the streets. anthony: hung them here? vilmos: hanged them in front
hungary. anthony: the russians had been beaten back for a time, but now they doubled down with a vengeance, pouring tanks and troops and heavy armor back into budapest and brutally, and all too effectively, put down the resistance. help never came. vilmos: i mean this, this is a place where a lot of things happened, used to be the avh headquarters. i never shot this before so, this is probably the first time i m going to get this building shot. anthony: so this was the internal secret police. so, if someone came at night vilmos: yes. anthony: with a van and you were taken away, you ended up being interrogated here. vilmos: yes. anthony: secret police headquarters in 1956. the sight of a firefight between snipers on the roof, and their fellow citizens below. vilmos: and then the people got into the building, went up there, hauled them, brought them down, and killed them, actually. basically hanged them on the streets. anthony: hung them here? vilmos: hanged them