Many of you will know Bela Lugosi for his portrayal of Court Dracula in the 1931 classic film Dracula.
What you may not know is that Lugosi was a active revolutionary during the Hungarian Soviet Republic, helping to found an actor’s trade union and organise theatre industry workers in support of the revolution.
During counter‐revolutionary terror that followed the fall of the Soviet Republic the Commission of the National Theatre stripped Lugosi of his job and forced him into exile.
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