Synopsis
In recent years, a downright onslaught on archives has taken place in Eastern Europe. Nothing is as important as the past, the complex history of a state that wanted to combine intellectualism with art, culture and politics. In this respect, Hungarian Sztálinvárosi (Stalin City), founded in 1951 and renamed to Danube City ten years later, was a special place, as it was the most privileged city for realising the dream of the New Humankind back in the notorious 1950s. The film portrays the city guided by a cantata, from the musical perspective of the compositor Peter Horváth, whose parents were thoroughly communists, but nevertheless amateur party members. The film very beautifully presents archive film and audio material in-between the protagonists´narratives.
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