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Filmmaker · Hungary

Károly Makk

Died in 2017

Károly Makk was born in Berettyóújfalu on 22 December 1925, the son of the owner of the town's cinema. A trainee at the Hunnia studios after his baccalaureate, he studied at the university, then entered the Academy of Theatre and Film in 1946, where he met Géza Radványi; he taught there from the early fifties. After about ten years as an assistant, he directed his first feature film. A film of 1971, based on the short stories of Tibor Déry, received the jury prize at Cannes. Winner of the Kossuth Prize in 1973, he died in Budapest on 30 August 2017.

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