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Hungary’s Mari Törőcsik, Cannes Best Actress Winner, Dies at 85

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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMari Törőcsik, one of Hungary’s leading actors, died on Friday, at the age of 85, in Budapest after a long illness.

She won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and appeared in two Oscar nominated films.Törőcsik’s first international appearance was in 1956 at Cannes, where she starred in Zoltán Fábri’s Palme d’Or competitor “Körhinta” (Merry-Go-Round), playing a country girl in love with a peasant boy, battling against the opposition of her father to the relationship.During the festival, Francois Truffaut, who was then a journalist with the weekly Arts, said he would have given her the best actress award, and Jean Cocteau also praised her performance.

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