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21st Century — Storyline

XXI. század shines a light on interesting people and events in Hungary, both past and present.

Cast & Crew

21st Century — Series Details

21st Century — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Sándorfi István (2023-01-02) — Painter István Sándorfi left Hungary when he was 8 years old. His father was the director of IBM in Hungary, he was convicted in a mock trial, and after his release the family had
• E2: Past and Present (2023-01-09) — How did people live in the Kingdom of Hungary during World War II, when our soldiers were maintaining order in Kherson and the front had not yet reached its borders? What is simila
• E3: Where did the Magyars come from? (2023-01-16) — There is no other point in our past that is associated with so many different scientific hypotheses and fantastical beliefs as our prehistory. But with the sensational archaeologic
• E4: Injection Molded War (2023-01-23) — Yugoslav Indians clashed with East German cowboys, and the Black Army beat the Americans. Happy Unhappy manufactured plastic soldiers and copied Western hit products. War in the ch
• E5: The secret of the Hungarian James Bond, codename "Beaver" (2023-01-30) — For 24 years, a super agent who existed only on paper protected the People's Republic. The stories of the Hungarian James Bond, codenamed Hód, sold hundreds of thousands of copies
• E6: Óbuda's experimental housing estate (2023-02-06) — When we hear the term experimental housing estate from the socialist era, most people certainly don't think of a breezy, livable housing estate consisting of 3-4-story buildings an
• E7: Sex in socialism (2023-02-13) — The skirt could not be short, and the kiss could only be an imitation. In the 1950s, it was still unthinkable for anyone to speak freely about sexuality, nudity, and physicality. A
• E8: Election campaign 1990 (2023-02-20) — Do you still remember the campaign leading up to the first free parliamentary elections after the change of regime? According to analysts, there were both amateur and professional
• E9: Hungarians in Vietnam (2023-02-27) — Fifty years ago, on January 27, 1973, a Hungarian delegation of soldiers and diplomats set off for South Vietnam. It is characteristic of their unpreparedness that they arrived in
• E10: Medgyessy Péter (2023-03-06) — What makes an internationally successful banker – especially at that time – take a poorly paid job and become Hungarian Prime Minister? And then what leads to the downfall of the R
• E11: Press freedom under fire (2023-03-13) — They ran for their lives, shot cars in the face, and couldn't even be sure that the information they learned would reach their listeners and readers. A few days in chaos and a hail
• E12: Pilinszky János (2023-03-20) — He often called his friends at night to tell them he had finished a poem. Sometimes he would stay up all night in his clothes, afraid that they would come for him. Even as an adult
• E13: Petőfi '73 (2023-03-27) — A strange experiment in Hungarian film history was undertaken in Pápa in 1972. Ferenc Kardos and his brother István Kardos wanted to film a strange retelling of the 1848 revolution
• E14: The Pusztavac Peace Festival (2023-04-03) — It started as a peace festival, but ended in a mass dispersal. In 1984, concerts in Pusztavac were stopped with tear gas and water cannon after a crowd of tens of thousands attacke
• E15: We need Mohács! (2023-04-17) — We need Mohács! But is it just self-pity, or the exact details of the fateful battle? Thanks to the 5-year-long work and findings of the research team that discovered Suleiman's to
• E16: Pets in the big city (2023-04-24) — The stars started it, the gentlemen took it to the café, and the authorities were worried – but what was wrong with the pets? And these days, is our dog happy if we take it to a ru
• E17: Peace Camp (2023-05-08) — Everyone wants peace, even those who start wars. They just imagine the end, the order after peace, differently than the one who was attacked. Peace movements that are still effecti
• E18: They were Pioneers (2023-05-15) — Red tie, war of numbers, flag raising – this is the common experience of every pioneer. But was there more to the pioneer movement than this? Some people think it is a perfect poli
• E19: The other side of János Gálvölgyi (2023-05-22) — Parodies, comedies, funny scenes and a show that has been shedding jokes for years. But what is it like when János Gálvölgyi plays a serious, dramatic or even tragic role? How diff
• E20: Csepel Works (2023-06-05) — In the morning they dropped the child off at the colony nursery, ordered meat from the corner store, fulfilled the expected norm at the factory, then picked up the meat on the way
• E21: In a different role (2023-06-12) — Fairytale worlds, fictional characters, magic, combat, adventure. Some play it at a table, others dress up, and some just read it. Living in someone else's shoes for days or even y
• E22: Cats (2023-09-04) — A change in the history of theatre in Budapest in 1983. The Nemzeti-Víg-Madách triumvirate at the Madách Theatre thought that something completely new should come. The actors shoul
• E23: The Videoton march (2023-09-11) — They were looked down upon, many people didn't even know where their stadium was. The small Hungarian team nevertheless achieved world-famous success by playing the UEFA Cup final
• E24: Romsics Ignác (2023-09-18) — The 21st century deals with actors, directors and other artists many times and at length. However, even in our country, portraits of historians are very rare, even though a fair tr
• E25: Hungarians and space (2023-09-25) — Everyone knows who the first Hungarian to go into space was. However, the scientists working behind the scenes rarely get the spotlight. Yet Hungarian researchers, astronomers, and
• E26: The big meeting (2023-10-02) — They believed him to be a dynamic politician who dazzled even Western politicians with his clear and lucid speeches. Then it turned out that he had no idea about diplomacy, and he
• E27: The Hungarian history of rallying (2023-10-09) — If we were to ask about the most popular sport of the Kádár regime, most people would say: football. It was really popular, but there were years when there were fewer fans in the s
• E28: Robert Koltai is 80 (2023-10-16) — Believe it or not: Róbert Koltai will be 80 in December. He doesn't look or think like a tired old man. Age is only reflected in his memories, of his childhood, his father, the yea
• E29: The Wekerletelep in Kispest (2023-10-30) — The Prime Minister of Hungary had an idea for a solution to the housing shortage in the capital. He passed a law, allocated money from the budget, and then, in collaboration with y
• E30: Sándor Weöres and his last sentence (2023-11-06) — A childlike, child-loving poet, whose poems have raised generations and continue to do so to this day. This is the image most of us have of Sándor Weöres. However, many people don'
• E31: Syrius (2023-11-13) — A Hungarian jazz-rock band that played a completely different kind of music than its contemporaries in the early seventies. Its members were excellent musicians, they conquered Aus
• E32: Family tragedies (2023-11-20) — Volunteers, civilian aid workers, were arrested in 1949, people who had been officially recognized until then. They were young, most of them with small children, when the police to
• E33: Kádár's childhood (2023-11-27) — János Kádár, the former first secretary of the MSZMP, was originally called János Csermanek and was born in Rijeka. Much is known about what happened to him after World War II, but
• E34: Demján Sándor (2023-12-04) — He was determined, tough as a rock, but kind-hearted – this is how his former colleagues remember Sándor Demján, who passed away in 2018. The 21st Century broadcast reveals how a c
• E35: In the footsteps of Pál Teleki (2023-12-11) — He was both victim and culprit. He was a role model and the protagonist of conspiracy theories. He was both a statesman and a helpless person. But why don't they want to believe th
• E36: Stars and celebrities (2023-12-18) — The lives of celebrities have changed dramatically in the past half century. In the days of single-channel television, there was a recipe for how to reach the top, but today we can
• E37: Kondor Vilmos (2023-12-29) — The first and last TV interview with Vilmos Kondor, the writer of Budapest noir. About Buda and Pest, journalists and policemen, buildings and dreams. The mysterious writer decided

Season 2

• E1: Photography (2024-01-08) — Everyone knows the name of Lóránd Eötvös, but few know that he took many photographs, as did the painter Miklós Barabás. The 21st century is dealing with the more than 180-year his
• E2: Globalisation (2024-01-15) — There are phenomena that, whether we want them or not, are not here. Such is globalization, the effects of which we enjoy and suffer every day. What do we owe to the great geograph
• E3: Független Színpad (2024-01-22) — At the end of the eighties, József Ruszt, the renowned director, left the Szeged National Theatre during the season. A significant part of the prose department followed him. Since
• E4: 100-year-old film about Csorna (2024-01-29) — It is well known that films have been made about Budapest for over 100 years. You can see a lot of people walking, a relatively large number of trams and a few cars in a metropolis
• E5: The 20th century family (2024-02-05) — There is no cure for family, they say. And yet it is the most beautiful and best solution for life. Pain, struggle and happiness – this is family. And what those who live together
• E6: The Hatvany family (2024-02-12) — The founder of Nyugat, the scion of the last wealthy patronage family. That's pretty much all we know about Lajos Hatvany. Few have heard of his political trial, his relationship w
• E7: Counter, recounter, subcounter (2024-02-19) — What kind of card player was János Kádár? The party secretary-general loved ulti and only played for penny stakes. How did the communist regime relate to gambling, while actors, po
• E8: Covasna Foam Bath (2024-02-26) — A love triangle and lots of music. Why did Bubble Bath fail in its time? Because in 1980 we didn't know that an animated film could also appeal to adults. That the main characters
• E9: Regime change in the press (2024-03-04) — Politicians expected side-talk, praise, and silence. The agitprop department issued the instructions on what they could and could not talk about – but what could a journalist do if
• E10: March 15, 1989 (2024-03-11) — On March 15, 1989, the day of the '48 revolution and freedom struggle was celebrated freely in Budapest for the first time. The most memorable moments were when the actor György Cs
• E11: The Gellért Hotel (2024-03-18) — A building where everyone who shaped 20th-century Hungarian history has visited. A building where stars, politicians and artists exchanged doorknobs. A building that was inhabited
• E12: Kassák (2024-03-25) — Writer, poet, artist. He left school to work as a locksmith apprentice and then as a foundry worker. He walked for months to reach his dream city, Paris, only to write in disappoin
• E13: Signs we didn't pay attention to (2024-04-08) — People flocked to Karády's film in 1939, the last year of peace. The summer was happy, and the toy store windows were filled with an arsenal of weapons: children's rifles, tanks, a
• E14: Window displays (2024-04-15) — In the 1980s, if someone applied to the College of Fine Arts or Applied Arts, they also applied to the window dressing vocational training school, because at that time this institu
• E15: Galactica (2024-04-22) — Star Wars was not the first, but it is certain that the film had the greatest impact on the fact that science fiction culture had so many followers in Hungary. The most important f
• E16: Attila Horvath (2024-05-04) — You can see a film about the life of one of Hungary's most successful hitmakers, Attila Horváth. The special thing about the portrait is that we are not illustrating Attila Horváth
• E17: The wild 90s (2024-05-11) — New stars flocked after the cemented stars of cemented comrades. Some brought a bikini or a cleaning lady, it was a bang in the head and the Volga roared. The king is dead, long li
• E18: Stars of Eger from 1923 (2024-05-18) — In 1923, Governor Miklós Horthy went to the cinema out of patriotic duty and watched a film. Pál Fejős, the director, was no longer there for the screening, he was filming in Ameri
• E19: Street girls and night butterflies in the Kádár regime (2024-05-25) — It did not even exist on paper, so much so that the moral police department established to control it was also abolished – this was how the socialist state leadership approached pr
• E20: Where it hurts the most (2024-06-01) — The love that holds a family together is so strong that when it is broken, the family members collapse. Every regime knows this well. If their violent organizations want to achieve
• E21: What was the ideal man like? (2024-06-08) — The ideal man doesn't drink himself to the ground, doesn't smoke in the apartment, gives his wife respect. He has a plot of land and a car. But it's okay if he doesn't. He flirts,
• E22: Dorothy Udvaros (2024-06-15) — He has had an exceptional acting career: he has played and is playing in the best theaters, with the best directors, he has been filming since college, he received the Kossuth Awar
• E23: The Blue Ribbon Race (2024-09-02) — It was believed to be a noble party and an expensive hobby of the elite – and still is today, by those who only see it from afar. An inimitable sense of life and a test of strength
• E24: A Western military school (2024-09-09) — Silence, order, discipline, camaraderie, rule-breaking and betrayal. A Western military school where everything happened just like in movies and books. Even the disillusionment. A
• E25: Cycling (2024-09-16) — First they said it wasn't for Hungarians. Then they said it wasn't for weak people. Not even for women, because it was believed to make them infertile. Yet it conquered – only to d
• E26: The Socialist Rich (2024-09-23) — They said everyone was equal, but there were those who did better. And you didn't even have to be a company manager or a party secretary to do it. The envied greengrocer, taxi driv
• E27: Poster girls in socialism (2024-09-30) — They were seen on the streets, in small car workshops – there was no corner of the country where they were not seen. But what did the planned economy give to models? And why were t
• E28: In whose interest was the transformation? (2024-10-07) — While Bye Bye Saxony was being sung and freedom was being celebrated at home, the leaders of the great powers in the West were not at all convinced that this change would end well.
• E29: Love, passion, marriage, cheating, then and now (2024-10-14) — From the spinner to Tinder, this episode about dating in the 21st century takes us on a journey. How did people court, flirt, and have sex in the countryside and in the city in the
• E30: The tragedy of Sayol (2024-10-21) — The train, full of university students returning home, was speeding towards Budapest at a speed of 110 km/h when it reached a poorly set switch. What happened next shocked even exp
• E31: The history of marriage (2024-10-28) — There was pressure, there was expectation, there was a cage – and there was happiness, there was a fulfilled dream, there was the very harbor they always wanted to reach. Breakthro
• E32: Zoltán Egressy: Portuguese (2024-11-04) — We all know one. Or we know someone who knows it: the classic communal space, the pub. And the doomed, fallible, comical, lovable characters who live there. We think of them as typ
• E33: In the footsteps of the disappearing backyard (2024-11-11) — Behind the block houses, at the end of the kitchen garden, the rural people found an unexpected source of income. When it seemed that the TSZ would completely eliminate traditional
• E34: Thatcher and Merkel (2024-11-18) — Two chemical engineers who changed the world. Two women who not only promised, but actually made their country great. And in just eleven or two years. One of them was a "war advoca
• E35: Father of Galactica (2024-11-25) — Whoever hasn't read Nemeré, well, hasn't read. That's how the sci-fi fan readers who went to the library thought. With Balázs Kiss's previous film, we now remember him, the recentl
• E36: E-Sports (2024-12-02) — Millions play it, it fills stadiums, it has world stars and you can make a fortune with it – but sometimes you don't even have to get up from your computer while exercising.
• E37: Two films about school, 51 years apart (2024-12-09) — Two films about school, 51 years apart. One changed Hungarian filmmaking. The other changed the habits of moviegoers. But should a film be made about school? And is education reall
• E38: Anna T. Szabó and György Dragomán (2024-12-16) — If you love a bird, be a sky, not a cage. Maybe this is the secret. Maybe Anna T. Szabó wrote in a single line how a man and a woman can love each other for a lifetime. Just like s

Season 3

• E1: Jimmy-tology (2025-01-06) — He wasn't a star, to put it mildly, but people swooned at his concerts. He wasn't played on the radio, yet everyone knew him. He was considered a king, but according to his close a
• E2: Cross-border trading, the world of haggling (2025-01-13) — Fake cognac, submersible pumps, skates, or ornately carved table legs – everything found its owner under socialism. But who and how brought the goods across the borders, who got ri
• E3: Episode 3 (2025-01-20)
• E4: Episode 4 (2025-01-27)
• E5: Episode 5 (2025-02-03)
• E6: Episode 6 (2025-02-10)
• E7: Episode 7 (2025-02-17)
• E8: Episode 8 (2025-02-24)
• E9: Episode 9 (2025-03-03)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does 21st Century have? 3 season(s) with 84 episodes.

Where can I watch 21st Century? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.