New Gilgames

(1963)

★ 8 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1963

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: Hungary

Director: Mihály Szemes

Cast: Darvas Iván, Edit Domján, Pécsi Sándor, Szilvia Dallos, Gyula Gózon, Erzsébet Házy, Ferenc Kiss, Sinkovits Imre, Rajz János, Oszkár Ascher

Plot

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.