Also known as The Age of the Barbarians"By any measure, Sándor Reisenbüchler is one of the most consequential film artists to emerge from post-war Hungary – a notion validated by his being awarded in 1993 the nation’s most prestigious cultural honour, the Kossuth Prize. His hugely influential films are bound up with the flourishing of the Pannónia Studio in the 1960s and ‘70s into one of the communist block’s most internationally acclaimed filmmaking institutions. But Reisenbüchler was ill-suited to the straightforward role of national hero: a self-professed anarchistic hippie equally disillusioned with communism and capitalism, who made friends and enemies...