East Punk Memories
is a
documentary
about the
hungarian punk scene
, in the mid-eighties and now.
Lucile Chaufour
focused on the
struggle
of the scene under the communist regime, what punk
stood for
back then (and now) and the life after fall of the
Berlin Wall
.
In the
mid-eighties
, defying local regulations that prohibited illegal filmmaking,
Lucile Chaufour shot Super8 material
about a group of
hungarian punks
and how they were struggling under the communist regime.
More than twenty years later
, she returned several times to interview the same people about what it was like to be a punk in Hungary, what punk stood for back then and how it has changed since and also how they see life in Hungary before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Is this what they struggled for?
With
Kelemen Balázs, Tóth Miklós, Mozsik Imre, Márton Attila, Papp Zoltán György, Ványi Tamás, Rupaszov Tamás, Horváth Attila, Erdős József, Vojtkó Dezső, Asztalos Ildikó, Törjék Tünde - members of bands like QSS, CPg, Kretens, Bandanas and ETA.
