Márta Mészáros

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1931-09-19 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Budapest, Hungary

Márta Mészáros

Biography

Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length directorial debut, Eltavozott nap/The Girl (1968), was the first Hungarian film to have been directed by a woman, and won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival. Mészáros' work often combines autobiographical details with documentary footage. Prominent themes include characters' denials of their pasts, the consequences of dishonesty, and the pro...

Production

1993

1975

Adoption

as Director

1975

Adoption

as Writer

1984

1968

The Girl

as Director

1978

1987

1987

1999

1996

The Seventh Room

as Director

1996

The Seventh Room

as Screenplay

1980

The Inheritance

as Director

1973

Riddance

as Director

1973

Riddance

as Writer

1978

The Two of Them

as Director

2004

The Unburied Man

as Director

1965

Blow-Ball

as Writer

2017

No Country for the Poor

as Additional Camera

1994

Fetus

as Writer

1979

On the Move

as Writer

1969

1969

Binding Sentiments

as Screenplay

2012

Hungary 2011

as Director

2012

Hungary 2011

as Writer

1978

The Two of Them

as Screenplay

1976

Nine Months

as Director

1965

Blow-Ball

as Director

1984

Vieras

as Director

1984

Vieras

as Writer

1957

1957

1958

Women of Today

as Director

1994

Fetus

as Director

1975

Adoption

as Director of Photography

1978

1968

The Girl

as Writer

2004

The Unburied Man

as Screenplay

1983

1980

1981

1999

1979

On the Move

as Director

2009

1976

Nine Months

as Screenplay

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