English actress Judi Dench recites Miklós Radnóti – VIDEO
Sometimes the internet can be great because we can find videos like this. Excerpt of My Homeland (1976) by Róbert Vas. The film was transmitted by the BBC (4/11/1976) on the 20th anniversary of the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
Judi Dench won Oscar statue for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, in 1998. She is a seven-time Academy Award nominee.
The translation made by Hüperion műhely, please listen to Radnóti’s beautiful poem:
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It sounds strange in english, but it is a very good interpretation! How sad, that after the evil, illegitimate Treaty of Trianon the hungarians have only “birthplaces”, but they don’t have a big and strong “homecountry, Heimat, Vaterland”, which would be able to defence its nation, preventing the real and economic wars, mostly generated by the most sinful coloniser, exploitative, ruler countries, like Austria, Germany, French, England, USA. Radnóti shared the faith of the innocent hungarian folk, he was more “magyar” than religious, his poetry is a popular and very beloved gem in the hungarian literature.