page_title: József Mindszenty
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: József Mindszenty / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to József Mindszenty in Parque Bustamante (Bustamante Park), Providencia, Santiago, Chile. It reads "Martyr in the struggle for freedom of the oppressed and the eternal christian values. The hungarian community living in Chile in the third anniversary of his death. Santiago, May 6th, 1978" Español: Memorial al cardenal húngaro József Mindszenty en el parque Bustamante, Providencia, Santiago de Chile. La inscripción en español bajo su retrato en relieve reza: "Cardenal / Mindszenty / Mártir en la lucha por la libertad de los / oprimidos y por los eternos valores cristianos / La comunidad húngara residente en Chile / En el tercer aniversario de su muerte / Santiago, 6 de mayo de 1978 /. Más abajo está la inscripción en húngaro.
context_page_description: József Mindszenty [jo:ʒɛf mindsɛnti] was the Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 2 October 1945 to 18 December 1973. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, for five decades "he personified uncompromising opposition to fascism and communism in Hungary". During World War II, he was imprisoned by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party.
  After the war, he opposed communism and the communist persecution in his country. As a result, he was tortured and given a life sentence in a 1949 show trial that generated worldwide condemnation, including a United Nations resolution. After eight years in prison, he was freed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and granted political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest. Mindszenty lived there for the next fifteen years. He was finally allowed to leave the country in 1971. He died in exile in 1975 in Vienna, Austria.
context_section_description: Mindszenty's life and battle against the Soviet domination of Hungary and communism were the subject of the 1950 film Guilty of Treason, which was, in part, based on his personal papers, and starred Charles Bickford as the cardinal.
  The 1955 film The Prisoner is loosely based on Mindszenty's imprisonment, with Alec Guinness playing a fictionalized version of the cardinal.
  He was reported as disliking the fictional version of his situation.
  The two-part 1966 episode, "Old Man Out" of television's Mission: Impossible was loosely based on Mindszenty. The episode's premise was that a Catholic cardinal, a political prisoner and hero to his people, was slated for execution in an Eastern European prison. The series' protagonists were tasked with smuggling him out of the prison and country before he was executed.
caption: Memorial to Mindszenty in Bustamante Park, Santiago, Chile
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