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Péter Bacsó
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 dire…
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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 decided to try filmmaking. His first job in a film was as an assistant in Géza Radványi's Valahol Európában (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 Arts in 1950. At the time he was already a familiar 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, Nyáron egyszerű in 1963. He made his most famous film, A tanú (The Witness) in 1969, but it was banned at the time and wasn't released until 1979. The film became a cult classic in Hungary; it is a political satire about the early-1950s Communist regime. Bacsó later continued to make mostly political and satirical films, for a wider audience. He made various genre films, trying his hand in musicals, comedies, 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 Hamvadó cigarettavég (Smouldering Cigarette) was a biopic of Hungarian actress and singer Katalin Karády. His 2008 film Virtually a Virgin was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Péter Bacsó, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2008
Virtually a Virgin
Movie Director
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2006
De kik azok a Lumnitzer nővérek?
Movie Screenplay
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2001
Smouldering Cigarette
Movie Director
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1997
Gulls and Gangsters
Movie Director
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1995
Witness Again
Movie Director
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1993
Do Widzenia Wczoraj. Dwie Krótkie Komedie o Zmianie Systemu
Movie Hungarian
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1991
Stalin's Bride
Movie Director
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1990
Hungarian Requiem
Movie Producer
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1988
Titania, Titania, or the Night of the Stand-Ins
Movie Director
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1987
Banana Skin Waltz
Movie Director
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1985
What's the Time, Mr. Clock?
Movie Director
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1984
Lily in Love
Movie Executive Producer
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1984
Oh, Bloody Life
Movie Director
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1983
The Insult
Movie Director
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1982
The Day before Yesterday
Movie Director
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1980
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Movie Director
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1979
Electric Schock
Movie Director
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1979
Why not Speak of Love?
Movie Director
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1979
The Witness
Movie Director
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1978
A nem várt vendég
Movie Director
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1977
A Very Moral Night
Movie Writer
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1977
Alarm Shot
Movie Director
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1976
A Pianino in Mid-Air
Movie Director
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1975
Don't Pull My Beard!
Movie Director
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1974
Dashing Girls
Movie Director
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1973
The Last Chance
Movie Director
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1972
Bald Head for Bald Head
Movie Director
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1971
Present Indicative
Movie Director
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1971
Love
Movie Screenplay
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1970
Outbreak
Movie Director
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1969
Palm Sunday
Movie Script Editor
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1968
The Fatal Shot
Movie Director
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1967
Summer on the Hill
Movie Director
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1965
Cyclists in Love
Movie Director
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1964
No Problems in Summer
Movie Director
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1961
Two Half-Times in Hell
Movie Writer
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1961
Military Band
Movie Screenplay
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1961
The Brute
Movie Script Editor
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1960
Don't Keep Off the Grass
Movie Screenplay
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1960
Crime at Dawn
Movie Writer
