Original title: Szabadság Tér ‘89
Position: Assistant Art Director
TV Channel: MTV
(Hungarian National Television)
Year: 2013

About the Show: It is about what happened in 1989* and the road that led to the first free elections. Since 1989, a new generation has been born and grown up. Today’s 25-year-olds need to know the difference between “regime change” and “making a change of the regime.”

*At the end of World War II, Soviet troops pushing towards Berlin occupied many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, and “forgot” to go home for over 40 years. 
During this time, Hungarian “puppet governments” who served the interests of the Soviet Union led the country, and although they held (occasional) parliamentary elections from time to time, of course people could only vote for one party, the Communist Party, and only for their candidates. If someone disagreed, they were retaliated against. With the weakening and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, the way was opened for the occupied countries to regain their independence. In Hungary, this happened in 1989. It was then that the form of government was transformed from a people’s “democracy” to a republic. This is the year of the regime change.