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Filmmaker · Hungary

Péter Bacsó

Died in 2009

Péter Bacsó was born in Kassa on 6 January 1928. He graduated in 1950 from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, worked first as a dramaturge and screenwriter, then directed his first film in 1963. He made some thirty feature films, many of them political satires, and kept working to the end: his last film was released in the year of his eightieth birthday. He won the Kossuth Prize in 1985, received in 2009 the lifetime achievement award of the Hungarian Film Week, and died in Budapest on 11 March 2009.

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