The actor-director assures that he was wrong many times, but he was never a liar.

Four years earlier, there was a serious scandal in which the Public Foundation for the Research of the History and the Society of Central and Eastern Europe, directed by Mária Schmidt, mistakenly wrote the name of the actor and director Lászlódózsa on a poster of 1956 showing an armed boy dying in 2000. Paul Pruck was visible. Several of the posters were made and could be seen in various parts of Budapest.

By mistake, Pruck’s daughter filed a lawsuit against Schmidt’s public foundation. The verdict was rendered in the case after a year and a half of litigation, which said that the famous poster photo from 1956 does not have Lászlódózsa, but Pál Pruck. However, the Schmidts did not apologize to the plaintiff, instead the posters disappeared, as did the images that appeared online. And at the text level, nothing appeared in which the error was recognized.

Another chapter in history is that of the ruling party. Sunday now he interviewed Lászlódózsa, who stated:

I don’t think it’s who is in the photo that matters, but who did what in October 1956. I’m glad to be able to speak honestly about all this, because I feel like there was an unprincipled expiration campaign of this poster thing, which I used and whose footprints I still keep in myself today. I have been experiencing this as torture for four years, and many have fallen away from me, even in the profession, although I have never been a liar. I have been wrong many times, involuntarily, but it is something Christian and human. I hope sorry ”.

Dozsa also spoke about “it turned out that under my name the late Paul Pruck was in the 1956 photo, the Pruck family was right. For my excuse, the resemblance was strong. We were the same age, our clothes and hats were similar. Unfortunately, this mistake was made very badly by some, and they also tried to unmask the revolution and myself, to discredit it.

The actor shared that the Soviet troops remained a day and a half after the invasion in early November, but then decided to surrender, “because we were already completely down, there was no point in more bloodshed. They hit me on the neck, I fell. I remember looking up, I even saw an egg grenade thrown at us to kill the wounded. Two fragments pierced my skull, I lost consciousness. Someone took me to Alliance Street Hospital, I was dying. “

Dozsa said that from here they took him to the Mosonyi út prison hospital, where many ÁVÓ beat him so badly that he collapsed and thought he was dead. “The adjacent Rijeka Road cemetery and the prison were separated by a fence that was demolished in one section. They took the dead and then threw them into a grave, including me. We were served lime and one of my fingers trembled, and one of the mourners noticed this and exclaimed, “You, this guy is still alive!”

According to Lászlódózsa, he was later taken out of the pit and taken to the Hospital on Szabolcs Street, where a doctor called Professors Kárpáthy and Mednyánszky saved his life with an operation that lasted several hours. “It wasn’t until the end of April ’57 that he was released from the hospital, partly because of my poor condition and partly because I was afraid that, otherwise, they would be caught again.


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