Hungary Today
By Fanni Kaszás
10/21/2019
Bud Spencer was born 90 years ago, on October 31, 1929 in
Naples as Carlo Pedersoli. The inseparable spaghetti-western partner of Terence
Hill was so popular in Hungary, that he has a mural painted of him, a statue,
and even a park unofficially named after him in Budapest.
The former professional boxer and swimmer Bud Spencer,
born Carlo Pedersoli, died in June of 2016 at the age of 87. He is so popular
in Hungary that his personal website is available in Hungarian as well as
Italian, English, and German.
A year after Spencer’s death, in 2017, a massive bronze
statue of the Italian-born actor was unveiled in Budapest. The bronze statue,
the first full-body one of the actor, is 2.4 meters-high and weighs over 500
kilograms. The artist was Sandra Tasnádi, and the statute was unveiled in the
Corvin Quarter in Budapest.
At the Filatorigát suburban train stop in Budapest, a
graffiti artist, who calls himself TakerOne painted a huge portrait of him,
which even the actor’s son and family have visited. However, in April 2017,
someone painted the wall black, and only part of the mural was salvageable.
This is not the first time Hungarians have commemorated
Bud Spencer, as last year the Hungarian ‘Two-Tailed Dog Party’ named a public
park after the Italian star in an official ceremony. In addition to a signpost
featuring the park’s new name, the party also inaugurated a memorial plaque
commemorating the actor.
In addition to the mural, the statue and the park name,
as well as the fact that one of the official languages of Spencer’s website is
Hungarian, in 2018 Levente Király made a portrait film about the famous actor’s
life and work, called “In the footsteps of Piedone.”
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