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Márta Mészáros
Budapest, Hungary
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 documentar…
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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 problematics of gender. Her films often feature heroines from fragmented families, such as young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle-aged women looking to adopt children (Adoption). Although Mészáros has made over fifteen feature films, she is arguably best known for Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first entry in a trilogy of autobiographical films which also includes Diary for my Lovers (1987) and Diary for my Father and Mother (1990). Throughout her career, Mészáros has won the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale; the Golden Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival; the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival; and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
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2017
Aurora Borealis: Northern Light
Movie Director
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2017
No Country for the Poor
Movie Additional Camera
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2015
My Mother's Letters to Stalin
Movie Director
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2012
Hungary 2011
Movie Director
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2010
Negative history of Hungarian cinema
Movie Self
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2009
Last Report on Anna
Movie Director
- 2006
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2004
The Unburied Man
Movie Director
- 2002
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2001
The Miraculous Mandarin
Movie Director
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2000
Little Vilma: The Last Diary
Movie Director
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1999
Daughters of Fortune
Movie Director
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1996
The Seventh Room
Movie Director
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1994
Fetus
Movie Writer
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1993
Edith and Marlene
Movie Director
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1990
Diary for My Father and My Mother
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1989
Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
Movie Writer
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1987
Diary for My Loves
Movie Director
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1984
Vieras
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1984
Diary for My Children
Movie Writer
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1983
The Land of Mirage
Movie Director
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1981
A Mother, a Daughter
Movie Writer
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1980
The Inheritance
Movie Director
- 1979
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1979
On the Move
Movie Writer
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1978
Just Like at Home
Movie Director
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1978
The Two of Them
Movie Director
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1976
Nine Months
Movie Director
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1975
Adoption
Movie Director
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1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV show Self
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1974
At the End of September
Movie Director
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1973
Riddance
Movie Director
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1972
At the Lőrinc Spinnery
Movie Director
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1970
Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!
Movie Director
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1969
Binding Sentiments
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1968
The Girl
Movie Director
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1968
In Memoriam László Mészáros
Movie Screenplay
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1965
Blow-Ball
Movie Writer
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1964
Szentendre And Its Painters
Movie Director
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1962
Care and Affection
Movie Director
