Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

Jan 1, 1991

0h 53m

★ 9.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Flashback Television

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Cast

Narrator

Zoltán Iván

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Márta Sebestyén

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Béla Halmos

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Marton Maneszes

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Bertalan Andrásfalvy

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Tekla Tőtszegi

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Ferenc Bodor

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