László Horváth, the actor of the film Somewhere in Europe, who portrayed Kuksi in the legendary work, has also died as a child actor in several Hungarian films.

László Horváth died on May 8, his son, Tamás Horváth, told MTI.

    "We say goodbye to Kuksi, one of our favorite characters from the movie Somewhere in Europe"

- reads the statement.

László Horváth was born in Budapest in 1940, his talent was noticed by the director Géza Radványi, and after that he appeared in several Hungarian films, including the work En és a grandpapam (1954).

László Horváth lived in Munich after 1956, made commercial films and worked as an assistant director in major films. He returned to Budapest again in the mid-1980s. He was good friends with the directors Géza Radványi and Károly Makk, as well as his childhood friend Béla Bunyik, the founder of the Hungarian Film Festival, the announcement states.

Géza Radványi's 1947 work about war orphans entitled Somewhere in Europe, which has become a classic, is one of the greatest international successes in Hungarian film history. The crew included many great creators of the era, and the most important members of the next generation also assisted. The film was shown in twenty-nine countries, and was a great success abroad, among others, it was seen by the public at the Locarno and Venice film festivals. Somewhere in Europe in 2000, according to the choice of the Hungarian film industry, it was included among the 12 best Hungarian works of all time.

On the occasion of Géza Radványi's (1907-1986) 100th birthday, the Hungarian National Film Archive has restored his first and most successful feature film after the war, the announcement recalls.

According to the imdb.com cinema database, László Horváth's films include Somewhere in Europe, as well as Me and Grandfather Díszmagyar (1949), Full Steam (1951), Ifjú hívvel (1953) and Little Bigs short film called joy (1953).

Somewhere in Europe - Kuksi's death (Géza Radványi, 1947, excerpt)

 

Somewhere in Europe - Kuksi and the rules (Géza Radványi, 1947, excerpt)

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