New Gilgames (1963)

8.0/10 • 94 min • Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

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

Ernö Szabó

Sonneborn, bookseller

Zoltán Basilides

Éva Kelemen

János Koltai

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