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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 30-4-1
TITLE:             Hungarian Exile Writer to Make Movie Picture in Yugoslavia
BY:                (Stankovic)
DATE:              1958-12-29
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  General Desk No.578
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956-1965, Hungary--Literature, Emigration and Immigration

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RFE NEWS & INFORMATION
EVALUATION & RESEARCH
General Desk - No.578

News Background 

X/80 Curt-HUNGARIAN EXILE WRITER TO MAKE MOVIE PICTURE IN YUGOSLAVIA F-39

MUNICH, December 29 -- (Stankovic) -- The Hungarian exile writer
Lajos Zilahy living presently in the United States has arrived in
Belgrade to discuss the possibility of making a movie picture based
on one of his novels.

The Belgrade daily "Borba" of December 27 reported that "the
well known Hungarian writer, Lajos Zilahy, who for a long time now
has been living in the United States, is at present in Belgrade".
"Borba" reminded its readers that "Zilahy's novels 'Ararat', 'Carried
By The Waters', 'The Deathly Spring' and 'Two Prisoners' were
translated into Serbo-Croatian and have met with great success among
Yugoslav readers. We understood that Zilahy came to Belgrade to talk
with certain Yugoslav film workers about the making of a?motion
picture based on his novel 'Carried By The Waters' (original Hungarian
title "Valamit visz a viz" - Ed.)."

Lajos Zilahy emigrated to the United States in 1947. Although
he had not participated in any Hungarian political movement, the
Communist regime in Hungary pronounced him "a traitor to the people's
democracy" and blacklisted his works. The novel "Carried By The
Waters" deals with a fisherman tragedy on the Danube.

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