Hot Men Cold Dictatorships

Young Hungarian gays explore the personal dramas of elderly gay men who lived in Communist Hungary.
Has the situation of gay men improved since the fall of communism or homophobia is even worse today?
Our one-and-a-half-hour-long creative, socio-documentary shows – with the help of 7 protagonists’ life stories – what it meant to be a gay man before the political „transition” in Hungary. The topic is pursued by 4 young gay guys. The personal experiences uncovered and the secret service files excavated reinterpret the past 50 years from the vantage point of the present-day social and legal context. Until today no film has been produced in the former Eastern bloc that would deal with the generations of older and younger gay men. Nor one that would investigate these life stories with the help of the files of the previous political regimes.