Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros
Born	19 September 1931 (1931-09-19) (age 80) Kispest, Hungary
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1954 - present

Márta Mészáros (born September 19, 1931 in Kispest, Hungary) is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachers^meaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender. In the 1980s, she created the autobiographical Diary series of films.

She married Miklós Jancsó in 1960; though they later divorced, their two sons, Nyika Jancsó and Miklós Jancsó Jr., have separately worked as director of photography on many of her films. In 1978 she directed the film Just Like Home, which starred Anna Karina.^[1] In 1976, she was a member of the jury at the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] In 1994, her film A magzat was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3]

She later became romantically involved with the Polish actor Jan Nowicki. After having lived together for many years, they split up in 2008. Nowicki starred in many of her films, including the principal role in The Unburied Dead. His son from an earlier relationship, Łukasz Nowicki, starred in Mészáros' Kisvilma. Mészáros became widely known in Poland and has directed some cinema and TV productions there.

Her critically acclaimed film Napló apámnak, anyámnak was produced in 1990. She directed a film about Imre Nagy in 2003–2004, titled The Unburied Dead.^[4]

Selected filmography

• 1968 – Eltavozott nap
• 1975 – Örökbefogadás (Adoption) - Winner of the Golden Bear at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival^[5]
• 1978 – Olyan, mint otthon
• 1981 - Anna
• 1984 – Napló gyermekeimnek (Diary for My Children) - Winer of the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival
• 1987 – Naplo szerelmeimnek - Winner of the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.^[6]
• 1990 – Naplo apamnak, anyamnak (Diary for My Mother and Father)
• 1992 – Edith és Marlene (TV)
• 1993 – A magzat
• 1995 – La settima stanza
• 1999 – A szerencse lanyai
• 2000 – Kisvilma - Az utolsó napló
• 2004 - A temetetlen halott (The Unburied Dead)

References

1. ^ Maslin, Janet. "NY Times.com: Just Like Home". nytimes.com. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/135210/Olyan-mint-otthon/overview. Retrieved 2010-01-31. 
2. ^ "Berlinale 1976: Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1976/04_jury_1976/04_Jury_1976.html. Retrieved 2010-07-14. 
3. ^ "Berlinale: 1994 Programme". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1994/02_programm_1994/02_Programm_1994.html. Retrieved 2011-06-16. 
4. ^ "A temetetlen halott". http://imdb.com. http://imdb.com/title/tt0371307. Retrieved 2010-08-24. 
5. ^ "Berlinale 1975: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1975/03_preistr_ger_1975/03_Preistraeger_1975.html. Retrieved 2010-07-11. 
6. ^ "Berlinale: 1987 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/03_preistr_ger_1987/03_Preistraeger_1987.html. Retrieved 2011-03-01. 

External links

• Márta Mészáros at the Internet Movie Database
• "Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times", 2002 interview from Senses of Cinema
• Central Europe Review interview about Kisvilma – Az utolsó napló (Little Vilma: The Last Diary)

Persondata
Name	Mészáros, Márta
Alternative names
Short description	Film director, Screenwriter
Date of birth	1931-9-19
Place of birth	Kispest, Hungary
Date of death
Place of death