Freedom's fury / a film by the Sibs ; producer, Kristine Lacey ; writer & director, Colin Keith Gray.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gray, Colin Keith, director.

Lacey, Kristine, producer.

Spitz, Mark, narrator.

Sibs (Production team), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water polo--Political aspects--Hungary.

Water polo.

Water polo--History.

Water polo players--Hungary.

Water polo players.

Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956.

Hungary.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, North Holland : Fortissimo Films, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In Freedom's Fury, the history of Soviet occupation of Hungary at the end of World War Two is interwoven with the country's emergence as a an international waterpolo powerhouse in the 50s. The journey of the 1956 Hungarian waterpolo team and its rising star Ervin Zador to the Melbourne Olympics then becomes the rallying cry for justice as Freedom's Fury explores the larger human tragedy of a popular, democratic uprising that is brutally crushed by the Soviet Red Army in November 1956, just two weeks before the Olympics begin in Australia (over 15,000 people were killed or executed). The story is now finally told about the infamous water polo showdown between Hungary and the Soviet Union, also known as "the Bloodiest Game in Olympic History."

Participant:

Narrated by Mark Spitz.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed August 25, 2020).

OCLC:

1195890160