Péter Bacsó

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 Radványis 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 wasnt released until 1979 The film became a cult classic in Hungary it is a political satire about the early1950s 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Péter Bacsó licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia