New Gilgames
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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.
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Iván Darvas
Dávid
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Mihály Szemes
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Chief physician
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Mihály Szemes Director · Ida András Screenplay József Solymár Screenplay
First release March 2, 1963 · Produced in Hungary · Original title Új Gilgames
Production
Hunnia Filmstúdió
Production
Hungary
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Original title
Új Gilgames
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Hungarian
Release dates
Hungary · March 2, 1963
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
March 18, 1965 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Germany
October 2, 1964
Russia
April 5, 1965 · Theatrical
Sweden
March 11, 1969 · TV premiere
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