Károly Makk (December 22, 1925 – August 30, 2017) 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, ...

and

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. Five of his films were nominated for the ''

Palme d'Or The Palme d'Or (; en, Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festival's highest prize was the Grand Prix du Fe ...

'' at the

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films ...

; however, he won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere. He was born in

Berettyóújfalu Berettyóújfalu is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in center of the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is 40 km south from Debrecen (the second largest city in Hungary), and about 35 km from Oradea (Romania). Berettyóúj ...

, Hungary. In 1973 he was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. His film '' A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda'' (2003) was entered into the

25th Moscow International Film Festival The 25th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 20 to 29 June 2003. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Italian-Spanish film ''The End of a Mystery'' directed by Miguel Hermoso. Jury * Sergei Bodrov (Russia – President of the Ju ...

. From September 27, 2011, he was the president of the

Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts The Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts ( hu, Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia) was created in 1992 as an academy associated yet independent from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It is intended to be the national academy of arti ...

Select filmography

* '' Liliomfi'' (1954) * ''Ward No. 9'' (1955) * ''The House Under the Rocks'' (1959) * ''Lost Paradise'' (1962) * ''

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'' (1971) - Won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 * '' Cats' Play'' (1972) - Nominated for

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 ...

in 1974 * '' A Very Moral Night'' (1977) * ' (1982) * '' Another Way'' (1982) - Won the award for Best Actress at the

1982 Cannes Film Festival The 35th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 26 May 1982. The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to ''Missing'' by Costa Gavras and ''Yol'' by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney. The festival opened with the 1916 film '' Intolerance'', directed by ...

* '' Lily in Love'' (1984) * '' The Last Manuscript'' (1987) * ''Hungarian Requiem'' (1991) * '' The Gambler'' (1997) - about the writing of

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) fact ...

by the same name * '' A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda'' (2003) * ''The Way You Are'' (2010)

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* 1925 births 2017 deaths Hungarian film directors People from Berettyóújfalu Members of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts {{Hungary-film-director-stub