Rocking the Nation

Rocking the Nation (Duborog a Nemzeti Rock)
A documentary film by Bori Kriza, Hungary, 2007, 70 min.
(Hungarian with English subtitle)

A concert tour with the rock band “Romantic Violence” and its fans to get insight into the Hungarian radical right-wing youth subculture. Folk musicians and skinheads, football supporters and college students speak of their radical nationalistic views. The slogans are rocking: freedom, anti-Communism, Trianon, the Jews, 100% Hungarian, to arms! But what happens when words turn to action? To date, the film has been screened at a number of international film festivals and other public events (in Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Washington, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, Bratislava, Kosice, Belgrade, Cluj).

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Bori Kriza was born in Budapest in 1974. She graduated in sociology at ELTE University in Budapest where she currently works as lecturer and researcher, participating in an EU-sponsored FP6 research project on “Reconstituting Democracy in Europe”. She also studied at CEU's Nationalism Studies Program as well as at Sciences Po in Paris. In 2008 she was a junior fellow at Collegium Budapest and in the same year she was awarded the Marshall Memorial Fellowship of German Marshall Fund of the US.

Kriza has participated in several research projects on far right politics, media, ethnicity, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, identity and collective memory in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She has contributed to projects initiated by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Central European University, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Central Statistical Office in Hungary.