New Gilgames [Új Gilgames]
- Release Year
- 1963
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
- Directed By
- Mihály Szemes
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.
