Károly Makk (December 22, 1925 – August 30, 2017)^[1] was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival; however, he won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere. He was born in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary.

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Károly Makk
Born	(1925-12-22)22 December 1925 Berettyóújfalu, Hungary
Died	30 August 2017(2017-08-30) (aged 91) Budapest, Hungary
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1954 – 2017

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In 1973 he was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.^[2] In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3] His film A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda (2003) was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.^[4] From September 27, 2011, he was the president of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

• Underground Colony (1951)
• Liliomfi (1954)
• Ward 9 (1955)
• Tale on the Twelve Points (1957)
• The House Under the Rocks (1958)
• Lost Paradise (1962)
• Love (1971) - Won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971
• Cats' Play (1972) - Nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974^[5]
• A Very Moral Night (1977)
• Deadly Game [it] (1982)
• Another Way (1982) - Won the award for Best Actress at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival^[6]
• Lily in Love (1984)
• The Last Manuscript (1987)
• Hungarian Requiem (1991)
• The Gambler (1997) - about the writing of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella by the same name
• A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda (2003)
• The Way You Are (2010)