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As we Hungarians would say, this production is totally a "paraszt vakitàs!" considering how the Hungarian government is using public funds creating propaganda "movies or TV series".

The real authentic Hungarian film making has died but mainly ignored or either emigrated overseas giving us the audience a magical motion picture experience!

We Hungarians basically give one of the best platform opportunities by making motion picture for Hollywood and thats where it ends unfortunately!!!😔 At the moment the latest political regime in Hungary has cancelled the free arts and culture institutes despite of make it larger and greater.

This is the most embarrassing and demotivating movie I ever seen. I do not recommend to watch, unless you're going to die in the next couple of days. I never thought our history could be even worse, than what we learned in school. Those actresses and actors should change occupations after producing a totally valueless product. Where are our great artists from those old movies??! Should be another generation to go on with their fantastic heritage! I'm so bored to watch black and white movies from the 30'- whenever I want to have fun, but it's still the best idea in 2022 in Hungary. Watching films from the 1930'

Even if we disregard the claims of the creators about the historicity of this miniseries (which is clearly false), or that it is an utter waste of taxpayer money (since its entire budget of $4m is state-financed, with a nearly zero box office), it is also badly written, features mediocre acting and is terribly boring!

These kinds of idealistic series or movies were typical in communist Hungary between 1950 and 1980. But those at least had some viewers, as there was only one television channel in the country.

The script is completely braindead. Lacks any character development. The actors were chosen according to their loyalty towards government officials. It doesn't feature any of the famed and generally accepted Hungarian actors, since those are regarded to be too "liberal" who "cannot be trusted". Just look at the fact that one of the main actors Balázs Bölkény attended the same faculty on the same university as half of the current government: The faculty of law on the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. And this is the guaranteed recipe for bad quality products: contraselection!

This supposed to be the Hungarian Game of Thrones. In local media this is refered to as a "hollywood quality production" and "it outshines even Game of Thrones". I always thought this would be a "poor man's GOT" but considering the money spent on the series from Hungarian taxes and the quality of the product this is rather a "rich man's Xena".

However some talented actors - only God knows why - decided to participate in this disaster still the majority of the acting reminds me to a former local soap opera called "Barátok közt".

The narration is incredibly boring, the costumes, the fight scenes and the visuals all look very cheap. The topic and historical period could make the series interesting at least but it is not even historically accurate or authentic.

If you don't want to waste a few hours of your life don't watch this disaster.

Utter waste of time, the screenpay is mediocre, writing is horrendously bad. It pretends to be a historical story but the plot has not much to do with the real historic events or characters. A sorry attempt to romanticise the non existent Hungarian greatness for a big load of govt. Financial contribution. It dares do compare itself with Game of Thrones, that is the best joke in the series, nevertheless if it is referring to the alternative history than I understand the link. This is the same disgusting agit-prop type story about imaginary and sugarclad history which was flourishing during the imfluzof USSR, but wait in those days Hungarian directors has balls and dared to write things like: the Russians are already in the storage room. Nowdays they truly are...