Spring Wind: The Awakening at Urania / Stadtkino
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- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 14 July 2026 – 19 August 2026
- Where
- Uraniastraße 1, 1010 Wien (also: Stadtkino, Schwarzenbergplatz 7, 1030 Wien)
- Price
- check website
- Documentary
- Hungarian
- Political
- English subtitles
- 1st district
Over the course of a year, director Tamás Yvan Topolánszky embedded himself with Péter Magyar as he built a political movement to challenge Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on power. The result is intimate and unflinching: public rallies where Magyar addresses thousands, private moments in his home, heated strategy sessions, and the Shakespearean confrontation in the European Parliament where Magyar told Orbán to his face: "We both know it's over."
The film was released free online in Hungary ahead of the April 2026 election. It was watched 3.3 million times. Magyar's Tisza party won 137 of 199 parliamentary seats.
For Vienna's international community — many of whom have watched Hungary's democratic backsliding with alarm — this documentary offers something rare: a portrait of political change from the inside, without the distance of hindsight or the filter of news cycles. It's not propaganda, but it's not neutral either. It's a record of a country in the act of deciding who it wants to be.
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