Mari Torocsik, the Hungarian actress who appeared in István Szabó's Sunshine and Costa-Gavras'Music Box, died Friday after a long illness, the Hungarian National Film Institute confirmed.
She was 85. An iconic figure in her native country, where many consider her to be the greatest actress of modern Hungarian cinema, Torocsik appeared in more than 170 films, from her 1956 debut in Merry-Go-Round from Zoltán Fábri — she was cast while still in her first year at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest — to her final starring role in the 2017 drama Aurora Borealis: Északi fény,from director Márta Mészáros.
Her debut, which premiered in Cannes, caught the eye of a young Francois Truffaut, at the time still a film journalist, who said the.
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