Efforts are ongoing to produce a film focusing on 15th-century military hero János Hunyadi, but the scripts written to date are not good enough, In other remarks, Vajna said the present film subsidy system was built on ruins, as in preceding years the movie profession had discredited itself.

The profession needed a new direction and now there is a system that works and that everyone understands, he said.

He noted that Hungarian films have won major prizes at almost every major festival recently.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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