The Unburied Man

(Niepochowany / A temetetlen halott)

This film is partially based on archival documents, official records and eyewitnesses’ reports. The characters, except for Imre Nagy and his family, are fictional. Imre Nagy, who was a Prime Minister of Hungary, opposed the Soviet Union in 1956 and withdrew Hungary from The Warsaw Pact, proclaiming it a neutral country. After the pacification of the Hungarian Upraising, the new, pro-Soviet Hungarian authorities sentenced Nagy to death. “The Unburied” depicts the last two years in the life of Imre Nagy, and is a study of the mental state of a wrongfully imprisoned man.

Director: Mészáros, Márta

Screenplay: Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki

Cinematography: Nyika Jancso

Music: Zygmunt Konieczny

Principal Cast: Jan Nowicki (Imre Nagy), Lili Horvath (Erzsébet Nagy, Nagy's daughter), Mariann Moór (Maria Egeto, Nagy's wife), Péter Andorai (doctor), Zsuzsa Czinkoczi, Jan Frycz (interrogator), Ewa Telega (Katarina, Romanian Secret Service agent), Łukasz Nowicki (journalist)

Runtime: 128 minutes

Release Year: 2004

Genre: Drama