George Mikes: Alien's Return

Overview

A generation of Communist rule changes many things - but not the real character of the people. George Mikes, writer, humorist, and traveller, left his native country in 1938 and settled in London. Since then he has gone back three times, including a visit in 1956 when he wrote a first-hand account of the unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Communist regime. In tonight's film the author of How To Be an Alien returns to look at today's Hungary in his own idiosyncratic way.