The Wende Museum joins in presenting the 2nd Hungarian Documentary and Short Film Festival, sponsored by the Consulate General of Hungary in Los Angeles.

Where There’s Tyranny… (Hol zsarnokság van…) was originally made in 1989 about the life of Endre Sárközy, the presiding judge in a series of political trials held in the 1950s.

The film premiered in 1990, but it sat untouched in an archive for twenty years after Endre Sárközy had the film banned, claiming it to be libelous.

This in-depth interview with the judge responsible for numerous death-penalty sentences during the period provides the perfect depiction of the psychological workings of a dictatorship over time. It portrays the terrifying mental pressure that pushed people toward weakness and cowardice and twisted a judge who wanted to do his very best job but eventually found himself sentencing fellow countrymen to death.