György Szomjas (26 November 1940 – 7 April 2021) was a Hungarian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

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He directed more than 20 films from 1965 to 2021. His 1983 film ''

Tight Quarters ''Tight Quarters'' () is a 1983 Hungarian drama film directed by György Szomjas. It was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Mariann Erdős as Éva * Nóra Görbe as Éva (voice) * Károly Eperjes as Csaba * P� ...

'' was entered into the

34th Berlin International Film Festival The 34th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 17–28 February 1984. The festival opened with ''The Noah's Ark Principle'' by Roland Emmerich. The retrospective was dedicated to German-American actor, screenwriter, producer an ...

. Szomjas is the father of the Hungarian

Ostern The Ostern ("Eastern"; ; or ) is a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films. The word ''Ostern'' is a portmanteau derived from the German word ''Ost'', meaning "East", and the English word ''wes ...

, the ''Goulash Western:'' in 1970s he directed two osterns about the Hungarian rascals the ''Wrong Doers'' and ''The Wind Blows Under Your Feet.''

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1983)

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* 1940 births 2021 deaths Hungarian film directors 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters Hungarian male screenwriters Writers from Budapest {{Hungary-film-director-stub