Richard II of Shakespeare was Janos Edelenyi’s “farewell movie” to Hungary. The day after finishing the lavishly mounted production about the deposed king he left for Vienna, never to return to communist Hungary.
The film (with its many political and personal subtexts) was banned, only to be shown for the first time after the fall of communism in Hungary. Now the deposition scene is the starting point of Janos’s new, autobiographical film JONAH AND ALEXANDER, which recounts the comically dramatic (or dramatically comic) story of his first encounter and tussle with Hollywood.
