New Gilgames
- Movies
- 1963-03-02
- EN
- Released
- 2h 34m
- HU
- Drama
Production
Hunnia Filmstúdió
Storyline
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.