Imre Madách

Birth : 1823-01-20, Alsósztregova, Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia)

Death : 1864-10-05

History

Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (January 20, 1823 – October 5, 1864) was a Hungarian writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust. The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous of 19th century Hungarian poets. Description above from the Wikipedia article Imre Madách, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

The Tragedy of Man
The Tragedy of Man
Original Story
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
The Annunciation
The Annunciation
Writer
The Annunciation (in Hungarian: Angyali üdvözlet) is a Hungarian film directed by András Jeles in 1984, based on The Tragedy of Man (1861) by Imre Madách. When Adam (Péter Bocsor) and Eve (Júlia Mérő), having succumbed to Lucifer's temptation, are cast out of the Garden of Eden, Adam holds Lucifer (Eszter Gyalog) to his promise, reminding him that "You said I would know everything!". So Lucifer grants Adam a dream of the world to come. And what a bizarre dream: Adam becomes Miltiades in Athens; a knight called Tancred in Byzantium; Kepler in Prague; Danton in revolutionary Paris; and a nameless suitor in Victorian London. Guided by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer, Adam confronts an endless procession of the horror of the human story... rapists and concubines, betrayal and savagery, mindless cruelty and fanaticism.
The Tragedy of Man
The Tragedy of Man
Writer
Starting with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve and Lucifer travel through history, from Ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, into a distant and uncertain future.