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Mari Törőcsik Dies: Hungarian Actor & Cannes Prize Winner Was 85

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Mari Törőcsik, one of Hungary’s most prominent actors who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and starred in two Oscar-nominated films, died on Friday in Budapest after a long illness.

She was 85.Törőcsik’s first international appearance was at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival where she starred in Palme d’Or contender Körhinta (Merry-Go-Round), from director Zoltán Fábri.

In that film, she played a young farmer girl who falls in love with a peasant boy against her father’s wishes.Francois Truffaut, who was then a journalist with the weekly Arts, said he would have given her the Best Actress Award and French poet Jean Cocteau also praised her talent.

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