Péter Bacsó was born in 1928 in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Péter Bacsó (6 January 1928 – 11 March 2009) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. After high school graduation Bacsó wanted to become an actor and la... (Full Biography Below)
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Péter Bacsó was born in 1928 in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Péter Bacsó (6 January 1928 – 11 March 2009) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. After high school graduation Bacsó wanted to become an actor and later a theatre director, but ultimately decide to try filmmaking. His first job in film was as an assistant in Géza Radványi's somewhere in Europe (Somewhere in Europe) at the age of 19. He continued as a script editor and screenwriter. He graduated at the Hungarian School of Theatrical and Film Art in 1950. At the time he was already the familiars face in studios. He was a successful screenwriter during the 1950s before beginning to direct films a decade later. He made his first feature film, Summer simple in 1963. He made his now famous film, The witness (The Witness) in 1969, but it was banned at the time and wasn't released until 1979. The film becase of the cult classic in Hungary; it is a political satir of about the early 1950s the Communist regime. Bacsó later continued to make mostly political and satirical films, for the wider audience. He made various genre films, trying his hand in musical theater, the comédie-old, etc. He continued filmmaking up to his later years, however his last two films were generally dismissed by critics and the public alike as badly written and low quality works. His 2001 film Undying cigarettavég (Smouldering cigarettes hadn) was the biopic of Hungarian actress aka and singer Katalin Karády. His 2008 film Virtually a Virgin was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
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