Watch Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania (1991) Online Free
The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.
Cast
Zoltán Iván, Márta Sebestyén, Béla Halmos, Marton Maneszes, Bertalan Andrásfalvy, Tekla Tőtszegi, Ferenc Bodor
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