Károly Makk

Károly Makk (2010)

Károly Makk (born 22 December 1925 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival without success; however, he has won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere. In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1] Since September 27, 2011, he is the president of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

Select filmography

• Liliomfi (1954)
• Ward No. 9 (1955)
• The House Under the Rocks (1959)
• Lost Paradise (1962)
• Love (1971) - Won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971
• Cats' Play (1972) - Nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
• A Very Moral Night (1977)
• Another Way (1982) - Won the award for Best Actress at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival^[2]
• The Last Manuscript (1987)
• Hungarian Requiem (1991)
• The Gambler (1997) - about the writing of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella by the same name
• A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda (2003)
• The Way You Are (2010)

References

1. ^ "Berlinale 1980: Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1980/04_jury_1980/04_Jury_1980.html. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Another Way". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1579/year/1982.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09. 

External links

• Károly Makk at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Makk, Karoly
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Date of birth	1925-12-22
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