MODERNISM, MADNESS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Where does a story begin? Did The Restless Hungarian begin in New York in 1996, when I sat down and interviewed my frail, eighty-two year old father about his life? Or after he died, in 1999, when my stepmother mailed me a huge box of his letters, personal papers and photographs? Or did it begin […]
Lately I have been spending my days in a cave. As a child did you ever throw a blanket over a table or some chairs and crawl into the dark mysterious space that was created? My cave feels a bit like this. Its walls are grey soft blankets, especially designed to absorb sound. The space […]
THE STORY This Website is about the creative journey of researching, writing and filming The Restless Hungarian, a true story set against the history of the Hungarian Jewish Diaspora, the rise of Modernism, and the Cold War. The Restless Hungarian is my father, Paul Weidlinger. He was as much of an enigma to me as […]