The Hungarian New Wave was a movement founded by new Hungarian filmmakers in the 1960s, almost ten years after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The then leader of the Hungarian Communist party, János Kádár, adopted a more liberalised approach to censorship of the arts in Hungary, which allowed film-makers to confront previously taboo subjects (including the revolution itself). Inspiration for the movement was taken from the films of the french Nouvelle Vague.