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Desi K. Bognár is an internationally renown author and film director, known for his International Dictionary of Broadcast and Film as well as Famous Hungarians. He left Hungary in 1956 after experiencing the Hungarian revolution first-hand. He has lived and traveled throughout the world, settling in Sarasota, Florida with his wife Katalin Szentpály.

Interview filmed by Andrea Lauer Rice and Réka Pigniczky in Sarasota, Florida in May of 2015.