Revolution's Orphans
1979 Canadian film
- 1979 (1979)
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Revolution's Orphans is a 1979 Canadian short film, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by John N. Smith.[1] It is about a man who flees Hungary, with his daughter Clara, for Canada as the 1956 Hungarian Revolution happens. They feel regret for abandoning their homeland—until Clara's uncle Janos arrives.[2]
The film won the Bronze Hugo, Short Subject-Drama at the 1979 Chicago International Film Festival. It earned six Genie Award nominations; Rudi Lipp won the Genie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor (Non-Feature).
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External links
- Revolution's Orphans at IMDb
- Revolution's Orphans at the NFB collection catalog
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Films directed by John N. Smith
- Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (1977)
- Revolution's Orphans (1979)
- First Winter (1981)
- The Masculine Mystique (1984)
- Sitting in Limbo (1986)
- Train of Dreams (1987)
- Welcome to Canada (1989)
- The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
- Dieppe (1993)
- Dangerous Minds (1995)
- A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
- Random Passage (2002)
- Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
- Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (2006)
- The Englishman's Boy (2008)
- Love and Savagery (2009)
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