# Robert Vas

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The native form of this [personal name](/source/Personal_name) is *Vas Robert*. This article uses [Western name order](/source/Personal_name#Western_name_order) when mentioning individuals.

**Robert Vas** (*Vas Róbert*; 3 March 1931, [Budapest](/source/Budapest) – 10 April 1978) was a Hungarian [film director](/source/Film_director) who settled in England.

He came to England after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. He was committed to documentary, like *Refuge England* (1959) and, after a short period working for the [National Coal Board](/source/National_Coal_Board), he went on to make a seminal series of films for the BBC. These include *The Golden Years of [Alexander Korda](/source/Alexander_Korda)* (1968) and *Heart of Britain* (1970), *The Issue Should be Avoided* (1971), *My Homeland* (1976), a three-hour examination of the life of [Joseph Stalin](/source/Joseph_Stalin) (1973), and *Nine Days in '26* (1974). He had planned to make films about the *[Gulag Archipelago](/source/Gulag_Archipelago)* and the wartime bombing of [Dresden](/source/Dresden) before his untimely death on 10 April 1978.[1]

In the BBC documentary tribute to Vas directed by [Barrie Gavin](/source/Barrie_Gavin), [Karel Reisz](/source/Karel_Reisz) said of him that his aim was to "inspire thought, to remind and warn".

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Gömöri György - Tisztelt Szerkesztőség! www.es.hu 2003. máj. 2. "... ahol Hochhuth ürügyén írtam erről, illetve Vas Róbert tragikus körülmények között, fiatalon meghalt, londoni magyar filmrendező (úgy emlékszem, 1975-ben készített) dokumentumfilmjét, amit annak idején a BBC sugárzott."

## Bibliography

- [Burgan, John](/source/John_Burgan) “Robert Vas”, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, ed. Ian Aitken, Routledge, New York, 2006, pp. 958–959

- Davies, Brenda, 'Obituary', BFI News, n. 34, July 1978, p. 3.

- [Barrie Gavin](/source/Barrie_Gavin) and Alan Rosenthal, 'Witness: In Memoriam, Robert Vas', *Sight and Sound*, Summer 1978 pp. 186–189

- ["Robert Vas Film-Maker"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QV5ScoFpAY) on [YouTube](/source/YouTube_video_(identifier)) (BBC, broadcast 3/5/1978, Barrie Gavin)

- [Screenonline: Vas, Robert (1931-1978)](http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/452750/index.html) BFI online guide to Britain's film & TV history

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