Jews, Nazis, and the cinema of Hungary: the tragedy of success, 1929-44 - 93

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output.

Yet by 1944, Hungary's cinema was in shambles, internal and external forces having destroyed its unification experiments and productive capacity.

This original cultural and political history examines the birth, unexpected ascendance, and wartime collapse of Hungary's early sound cinema by placing it within a complex international nexus.