Elena & Leo
Director Klára Trencsényi
Countries Hungary
Duration 27 min
Synopsis
Four- year old Elena was already a migrant when her parents left Hungary in 1956 seeking their luck in Argentina. She became immigrant again in her own 'home country', when she returned in 1975 to communist Hungary; suspected then to be a spy. She suffered and fought prejudice to be accepted and feel Hungarian again; until 2008 when she fell in love with 35- year- old Leo from Cuba. Leo followed her to Hungary but bureaucracy and prejudice made him leave soon. His forced departure turned them both into migrants, searching for a new home... again and again. Our twenty- six minute documentary deals with migrant illusions, nostalgia and the nature of homesickness through the love story of Elena and Leo.
Four- year old Elena was already a migrant when her parents left Hungary in 1956 seeking their luck in Argentina. She became immigrant again in her own 'home country', when she returned in 1975 to communist Hungary; suspected then to be a spy. She suffered and fought prejudice to be accepted and feel Hungarian again; until 2008 when she fell in love with 35- year- old Leo from Cuba. Leo followed her to Hungary but bureaucracy and prejudice made him leave soon. His forced departure turned them both into migrants, searching for a new home... again and again. Our twenty- six minute documentary deals with migrant illusions, nostalgia and the nature of homesickness through the love story of Elena and Leo.