Imre Gyöngyössy (25 February 1930 – 1 May 1994) was a Hungarian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. His film ''

The Revolt of Job ''The Revolt of Job'' ( hu, Jób lázadása) is a 1983 Hungarian film directed by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lackó is a Hungarian orphan whom a Jewish couple adopts. ...

'' (1983), which he co-directed with

Barna Kabay Barna Kabay (born 15 August 1948, Budapest) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian film director, screenwriter and film producer. His film ''The Revolt of Job'' (1983), which he co-directed with Imre Gyöngyössy, was nominated for the Academy Award fo ...

, was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

. Gyöngyössy said that he intended the film "as a message not only between generations but between nations".

Selected filmography

* ''

Job's Revolt ''The Revolt of Job'' ( hu, Jób lázadása) is a 1983 Hungarian film directed by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lackó is a Hungarian orphan whom a Jewish couple adopts. ...

'' (1983) * ''

Yerma ''Yerma'' is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934 and first performed that same year. García Lorca describes the play as "a tragic poem." The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural S ...

'' (1984)

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* Hungarian film directors Male screenwriters Hungarian male writers People educated at the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma 1930 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub