April 13, 2024 – 09:48
Two days before the demonstration on April 6, he called Ervin Nagy to say that he would like to perform a Radnóti poem. “Péter Magyar called me back, I told him that if you need a national liberal, I will come on Saturday. Because I am a liberal and I have a strong sense of Hungarianness,” said Popular word András Bálint is a Kossuth- and Mari Jászai award-winning actor and theater director.
Bálint last spoke on a political issue in 1998. A year earlier, he won the tender for the director of the National Theatre, and the first Orbán government stopped the construction of the theater on Erzsébet Square. Bálint then resigned. During the regime change, he was more active in public life, performed several times at SZDSZ events, and was also on good terms with István Tarlós, he recalled to the newspaper.
Ervin Nagy previously talked about how he has a 56 mood these days, Bálint responded to this in the interview by saying that he lived through the revolution with Tamás Jordán, and at the age of 13, he and his teammate stuck Kossuth emblems on trucks. “Now, even if I’m not in the mood for ’56, I definitely remember the Imre Nagy funeral of ’89,” he said.
“Do I have any doubts? There is. I saw in him a talented young man who articulates well and exudes determination”
– He told.
He described being able to perform on Kossuth Square as uplifting and wonderful, and according to his account, he was also nervous when he recited Miklós Radnóti’s poem Nem tudhatom.
He added that Hungarian society has been “disgustingly divided” for thirty years, the theater profession was not so for a long time, but with the appearance of Attila Vidnyánszky and the establishment of the Hungarian Theater Society, it “declaredly became so”.
Our video of the April 6 demonstration can be seen here:
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