Water Polo-Adjacent Cinema

The movie addresses the anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary, and the ‘blood in water’ match between HUN and CCCP in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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Spolier Alert - We made it mainstream! The Athletic Spoiler alert for today. Guessing not many got this.

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I just saw this. There is a Hungarian narrative feature film called “Children of Glory”, made about this in 2006. A friend of mine, Joe Eszterhas, a famous screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Flashdance, etc) wrote the script. Here is the IMDb link to the movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486219/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_children%20of%20gl