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Historical Ruptures and Ironic Masculinities (Moscow Square. Ferenc Török, 2001)

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This chapter focuses on the film Moscow Square (Ferenc Török, 2001), which was probably the first sign of the appearance of a new generation of post-communist Hungarian filmmakers. Moscow Square gives a light-hearted, playful narrative of the regime change and the coming of age of its protagonist, Petya. The chapter discusses the significance and different conceptualisations of the 1989–1990 regime change, together with its effects on men. As the film presents the spring of 1989 as the lost time of innocence and liberation, the chapter also discusses the working of post-communist nostalgia in Hungarian cinema.

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    György Kalmár

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Kalmár, G. (2017). Historical Ruptures and Ironic Masculinities (Moscow Square. Ferenc Török, 2001). In: Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63664-1_2

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