New Gilgames (movie)
Új Gilgames- Production country: Hungary
- Producer: Mihály Szemes
- Production companies: Hunnia Filmstúdió
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 3/2/1963
- Run time: 94 min.
Movie description
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.