Prize-winning film director András Kovács dies, aged 91

Életének 92. évében 2017. március 11-én elhunyt Kovács András filmrendezõ, Kossuth-díjas, kétszeres Balázs Béla-díjas érdemes és kiváló mûvész. A felvétel a Hogy volt!? címû tv-mûsor felvételén készült az MTVA Kunigunda útjai gyártóbázisának 7-es stúdiójában 2013. május 29-én. MTI Fotó: Zih Zsolt

Budapest, March 11 (MTI) – The prize-winning Hungarian director András Kovács died on Saturday, aged 91, his family told MTI.

Kovács was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1970, Hungary’s highest state honour for artists, and was a two-time winner of the Balázs Béla Prize.

Kovács’s 1966 film Cold Days, which examined individual responsibility for the massacre by Hungarian military and gendarmerie of Serbs and Jews in Vojvodina in 1942, became the source of much controversy.

His 1978 film The Stud Farm was among the first to deal openly with Hungary’s history in the 1950s.

Source: MTI

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