Károly Makk

Károly Makk
Born	(1925-12-22) 22 December 1925 Berettyóújfalu, Hungary
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1954 – present

Károly Makk (born 22 December 1925) 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. He was born in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary.

In 1973 he was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1] In 1980 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] His 2003 film A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.^[3] Since 27 September 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^[4]
• A Very Moral Night (1977)
• Another Way (1982) - Won the award for Best Actress at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival^[5]
• 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

External links

• Károly Makk on IMDb