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New Gilgames (1963)

Name: New Gilgames
Director: Mihály Szemes
Genre: Drama
Released: 1963-03-02
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Iván Darvas, Edit Domján, Sándor Pécsi, Szilvia Dallos, Gyula Gózon

94 min · Hungary · Dir. Mihály Szemes

Drama 1963 movies

The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching death. His specialist reckons, however, that such a searching and stubborn mind with thorough knowledge of the nature of his own illness, will be able to fight death.