Imre Gyöngyössy (25 February 1930 – 1 May 1994) 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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. His film '' The Revolt of Job'' (1983), which he co-directed with Barna Kabay, was nominated for the

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

Selected filmography

* '' Job's Revolt'' (1983) * '' Yerma'' (1984)

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