"“We don't want to build a power machine.”"
"The festival opened on Tuesday night with the international première of a documentary called “Spring Wind,” which was squarely on theme: the high-risk, high-reward tale of Péter Magyar's audacious quest to unseat Viktor Orbán as Prime Minister of Hungary. (One of the documentary's producers described its “dramatic arc” as “a classic hero's journey.”) Last month, despite Orbán's formidable, long-standing attempts to rig the legal and electoral systems in his favor, Magyar won, in a stunning upset."
"Magyar granted the filmmakers, a husband-and-wife team named Tamas Yvan Topolánszky and Claudia Sümeghy, extensive access to his campaign. They shot for a year, in secret, accompanying Magyar as he rehearsed his speeches, berated his staff, walked to Transylvania, and held countless rallies before small crowds in the countryside. Then, a week before the election, they released the movie, temporarily, on YouTube."
"It quickly set viewership records. Some 3.3 million people watched it online-a number roughly equivalent to a third of Hungary's population (and also, the filmmakers hasten to point out, strikingly close to the number of votes Magyar ended up getting)."
A new Prime Minister promised not to build a power machine. A film festival in Northern Italy opened with an international premiere of Spring Wind, a documentary about Péter Magyar’s attempt to unseat Viktor Orbán as Prime Minister of Hungary. Magyar won a surprising election after long-standing efforts by Orbán to influence legal and electoral systems. The documentary ends before election day, giving access to Magyar’s campaign through a year of secret filming, including rehearsing speeches, confronting staff, traveling to Transylvania, and holding rallies. The filmmakers released the film temporarily on YouTube a week before the election, where it drew about 3.3 million views, roughly matching the vote total Magyar received.
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