Film

New Gilgames

1963 · 1h 34m · Drama

IMDb

6.3

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.

Iván Darvas

Dávid

Edit Domján

Lilla

Sándor Pécsi

doktor Aradi

Szilvia Dallos

Margin Sister

Gyula Gózon

Uncle Szoboszlai

Erzsébet Házy

Klári

Ferenc Kiss

Chief physician

Imre Sinkovits

Chief Engineer

János Rajz

Jani Nyíri

Oszkár Ascher

Jóna

Ernö Szabó

Sonneborn, bookseller

Zoltán Basilides

Anikó Felföldi

László Ferencz

György Györffy

Tibor Haraszin

• Mihály SzemesDirector
• Ida AndrásScreenplay
• József SolymárScreenplay
• Barnabás HegyiDirector of Photography
• Mihály MorellEditor

Release date

March 2, 1963

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Drama