Péter Bacsó

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

-

Birthday

1928-01-06 (81 years old)

Deathday

2009-03-11

Place of Birth

Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)

Péter Bacsó

Biography

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 Radványi's 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 feat...

Production

1979

The Witness

as Director

1995

Witness Again

as Director

1995

Witness Again

as Writer

1958

Sweet Anna

as Writer

1984

Oh, Bloody Life

as Director

1984

2008

2008

1984

Lily in Love

as Executive Producer

1977

1987

1987

1965

Cyclists in Love

as Director

1968

The Fatal Shot

as Director

1968

1960

1971

1971

Present Indicative

as Screenplay

1967

1967

Summer on the Hill

as Screenplay

1964

1964

1970

Outbreak

as Director

1970

Outbreak

as Screenplay

1972

1973

The Last Chance

as Director

1973

The Last Chance

as Screenplay

1974

Dashing Girls

as Director

1974

Dashing Girls

as Screenplay

1975

1975

1976

1976

1979

Electric Schock

as Director

1979

Electric Schock

as Screenplay

1979

1979

1982

1991

Stalin's Bride

as Director

1991

Stalin's Bride

as Screenplay

2001

2001

1951

Mrs. Déry

as Screenplay

1959

Walking to Heaven

as Screenplay

1947

It Happened in Europe

as Script Editor

1961

The Brute

as Script Editor

1979

The Witness

as Screenplay

1960

Crime at Dawn

as Writer

1965

1949

Anna Szabó

as Writer

1997

1997

1977

Alarm Shot

as Director

1983

The Insult

as Director

1961

Military Band

as Screenplay

1978

1969

Palm Sunday

as Script Editor

1952

1954

1990

1971

Love

as Screenplay

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