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Filmmaker · Hungary

István Szőts

Died in 1998

István Szőts was born on 30 June 1912 in Szentgyörgyválya, in Transylvania, and came to Hungary with his father. After painting lessons with Aba-Novák and Iványi-Grünwald, he entered the Hunnia studios in 1939, where he assisted Lajos Zilahy. His first feature film won a prize at Venice in 1942; the second, completed in 1947, was banned, and his projects then failed one after another. Selected for Venice in 1957, he did not return and settled in Vienna, where he taught film. He received the Kossuth Prize in 1992 and died in Vienna on 6 November 1998.

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