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Filmmakers · Hungary

Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay

Died in 1994

Imre Gyöngyössy was born in Pécs on 25 February 1930. As a student he was arrested in 1951 and sentenced in a political trial; released in 1954, he worked as a miner, among other jobs, then graduated in 1961 from the Academy of Theatre and Film. From the late seventies he lived and filmed in West Germany with Barna Kabay, born in Budapest on 15 August 1948, whom he had met on a film shoot; the two men co-signed documentaries and fiction films. Gyöngyössy died in Budapest on 1 May 1994.

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