Kocsis was in Rotterdam with her third film ‘Eden’.
Hungarian director Ágnes Kocsis, whose third feature Eden made its world premiere at Iffr this January, is working on a biopic of Pál Szécsi, the famous but troubled Hungarian pop singer of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Szécsi attempted suicide many times and finally succeeded in 1974, aged only 30.
“He had a very incredible life,” Kocsis said of her subject, who remains a huge cult figure in Hungary. “He was half Jewish, half gypsy. He had a girlfriend, a very famous actress, who also had gypsy origins and she also committed suicide...
Hungarian director Ágnes Kocsis, whose third feature Eden made its world premiere at Iffr this January, is working on a biopic of Pál Szécsi, the famous but troubled Hungarian pop singer of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Szécsi attempted suicide many times and finally succeeded in 1974, aged only 30.
“He had a very incredible life,” Kocsis said of her subject, who remains a huge cult figure in Hungary. “He was half Jewish, half gypsy. He had a girlfriend, a very famous actress, who also had gypsy origins and she also committed suicide...
- 1/31/2020
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- ScreenDaily
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