Xpat Report: U.S. Embassy Budapest Screens Lincoln
- 25 Feb 2013 8:00 AM
The U.S. Embassy with the assistance of InterCom Marketing screened Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln to a selected audience in the Puskin Cinema on January 24, a week before its nationwide release in Hungary. The movie focuses on a critical moment of conscience in America’s democratic and constitutional history – President Lincoln’s struggle to pass the 13th Amendment, thereby abolishing slavery. The screening came shortly after the second Inauguration of President Obama and the Monday, January 21st holiday honouring civil rights activist Martin Luther King, himself a descendant of slaves.
Ambassador Kounalakis delivered remarks before the screening and noted that President Obama reflected Lincoln’s commitment to freedom and equality when he said in his second Inaugural Address that “freedom is a gift of God, but it must be secured by those of us on earth.” Visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia, also delivered remarks and suggested that Abraham Lincoln is certainly a role model for President Barack Obama.
Close to 150 guests, among them government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, journalists and cultural figures attended the screening.
Source: U.S Embassy Budapest
Poster of the movie Lincoln in Puskin Cinema (Embassy photo by Anita Tenk)
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