Andy Vajna’s funeral – here’s everything you need to know

The funeral of Andy Vajna, the Hungarian film producer, took place on January 31st. Serious security measures had to be taken before the ceremony started, as about 3-4 hundred people attended the funeral, many of them celebrities.

Daily News Hungary reported before about the death of media mogul Andy Vajna. Now, we share details about the funeral that took place on Thursday.

Guests kept arriving for an hour before the ceremony started at 11 am – reports NlCafe. Many of them had a white flower or a cigar with them – the idea of the organisers to commemorate Vajna. Numerous Hungarian celebrities attended, including Kata Dobó or Róbert Kárász. Some arrived in cars with tinted windows while there was also a bus that took people – including the grandmother of Tímea Vajna – to the location.

The list of attendees included Viktor Orbán as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger who arrived in separate cars but met up before entering the area. You can watch a short clip of them together below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGHgs7muomg

Because of the volume of the event and the status of the attendees, the location of the ceremony had to be secured beforehand. Bomb-sniffing dogs and employees of the Counter-Terrorism Centre searched the are before the ceremony started while the police were instructed to guard the entrance.

Several people gave speeches in memoriam of Andy Vajna. According to Blikk, Antal Rogán called him a friend and said that he was a kind of folktale hero who fulfilled the ‘American dream’ while still loving his homeland with a passion.

One of the significant moments of the funeral was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s touching speech about Andy Vajna. He told the story of how they were introduced after Rambo became successful and thus their friendship started. He said what an excellent businessman Andy Vajna was and that even though he was annoyed at first for not being cast as the lead in Rambo, he forgot about that after the idea of Red Heat was born.