Péter Bacsó
Writing
Born 1928-01-06
Died 2009-03-11
Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
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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.
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Filmography
Writing
38 credits
Cyclists in Love
Bald Head for Bald Head
Dashing Girls
Present Indicative
Electric Schock
Mrs. Déry
Titania, Titania, or the Night of the Stand-Ins
The Last Chance
The Fatal Shot
Stalin's Bride
Crime at Dawn
Walking to Heaven
Banana Skin Waltz
A Pianino in Mid-Air
A Very Moral Night
Military Band
Don't Pull My Beard!
Oh, Bloody Life
Sweet Anna
Why not Speak of Love?
The Witness
Two Half-Times in Hell
Summer on the Hill
Love
The Birth of Menyhért Simon
Don't Keep Off the Grass
Nyugati övezet
De kik azok a Lumnitzer nővérek?
Gulls and Gangsters
The Day before Yesterday
Virtually a Virgin
Witness Again
Tale on the 12 Points
Keep Your Chin Up!
Outbreak
Smouldering Cigarette
Anna Szabó
No Problems in Summer
Directing
30 credits
Cyclists in Love
Bald Head for Bald Head
Dashing Girls
Present Indicative
Electric Schock
Titania, Titania, or the Night of the Stand-Ins
The Last Chance
The Fatal Shot
Stalin's Bride
Banana Skin Waltz
A Pianino in Mid-Air
Don't Pull My Beard!
What's the Time, Mr. Clock?
Oh, Bloody Life
Why not Speak of Love?
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
The Witness
Summer on the Hill
De kik azok a Lumnitzer nővérek?
Gulls and Gangsters
The Day before Yesterday
Virtually a Virgin
Witness Again
The Insult
A nem várt vendég
Outbreak
Smouldering Cigarette
Alarm Shot
No Problems in Summer
Do widzenia wczoraj. Dwie krótkie komedie o zmianie systemu
Acting
3 credits
Producing
2 credits
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