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NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY Premiering Tonight on Independent Lens
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“…A tale of friendship and survival that has become legend in Hollywood.”
– Los Angles Times
“[NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY is] about a friendship between men who shared certain unusual, difficult experiences, and how those experiences shaped their art.”
– The New York Times
They took Hollywood by storm––escaping the brutal Soviet oppression of the Hungarian Revolution and rising to fame with classic films like Easy Rider, Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter. Cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond pioneered the “American New Wave,” defining innovative ways to tell stories. This is an intimate portrait of the 50-year journey of two giants of modern image making and their deep bond of brotherhood that transcended every imaginable boundary.
NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: Laszlo & Vilmos premieres tonight, November 17, at 10:00 PM on Independent Lens on PBS (check local listings).