When the Liszt Institute in New York recently offered the possibility to distribute the Hungarian film Blokád (Blockade) to Hungarian communities in North America for free of charge screening events, our family volunteered to organize a screening in the Scout House in Garfield, New Jersey. The film made the audience recall old memories and put the spotlight on lesser-known details about the arguably biggest crisis of the then-nascent democracy of Hungary, the taxi drivers’ blockade of October 1990.
