Károly Makk
Biography
Károly Makk (born 23 December 1925 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival without success; however, he has won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere. 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 2003 film A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. Since September 27, 2011, he is the president of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Károly Makk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Self
Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as self
Péter Gerő's unfinished portrait film of cinematographer-filmmaker György Fehér. The "film torso" (as the director calls it), which is shorter than 40 minutes, features such prominent figures from the history of Hungarian film and television as theatre and television film specialist István Lénárt, film director Károly Makk, film aesthete Yvette Bíró, and organiser László Béla. Also includes many unforgettable anecdotes and photographs of György Fehér from the time.