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Director Born: December 23, 1937 in Budapest, Hungary Biography:Were it not for the Russian put-down of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, director "Peter Medak" might well have been one of the leading lights of the New Hungarian Cinema of the 1970s. As it happened, Medak was forced to flee to Britain, where after a lengthy apprenticeship he was allowed to direct TV movies and to work as second-unit director on such films as Kaleidescope (1966) and "Funeral in Berlin" (1967). After making his theatrical-film directorial bow in 1968, Medak garnered praise for his handling of the very black comedy "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (1972). He followed this with "The Ruling Class" (1972) a rude, irreverent, achingly funny combination of theatrical and cinematic knowhow which skewered every traditional value held near and dear by the British aristocracy (the hero imagines he's Jesus Christ, then switches to Jack the Ripper). In between bread-and-butter assignments like... Full Biography
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