EXCLUSIVE: A film charting the rise of Hungary‘s incoming Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, was watched 3.3 million times online ahead of the country’s election this past weekend.
Spring Wind – The Awakening, from director Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, was watched 140,000 times at cinemas in the run up to the election as Magyar challenged the incumbent leader, autocrat Viktor Orbán, but was then released free online to prioritize accessibility and public dialog, going on to clock up well over three million.
In a country with a population of just nine million, that could represent as much as a third of its citizens having seen it.
Magyar’s Tisza party went on to dethrone Donald Trump ally Orbán, winning massive 137 of the 199 parliamentary seats available on a ticket promising change, reform and repeal of many of the ruling’s Fidesz’s laws. Orbán had ruled for 16 years on
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