Márta Mészáros

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Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros (born September 19, 1931 in Kispest ) is a Hungarian film director .

Life

Márta Mészáros was born the daughter of a sculptor and a German teacher. Her father was a committed member of the Hungarian Communist Party, which led to his family emigrating to the Soviet Union in 1936 . First they went to Moscow and then on to Kyrgyzstan , where their father was supposed to set up an art academy for the Soviet-Asian region. However, he was unable to put these plans into practice because he was imprisoned in the course of the Great Purge in 1938 . Since then, all traces of him have been lost and Márta Mészáros' mother died a little later.

Márta Mészáros did not return to her home country until after the Second World War . Until her return she was supervised by a Hungarian foster mother, who returned to Hungary as a communist functionary in 1947 and took Márta Mészáros with her. She returned to Moscow to study. In 1956 she finished her studies at the Moscow Film School. Back in Hungary, she initially mainly made documentaries. In 1968 she made her first feature film. It was the first feature film in Hungary that was made by a woman. She became internationally known in 1975 when she surprisingly won the Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlinale with her film Adoption (Örökbefogadás) . In 2007 she received the Berlinale Camera for her life's work.

Márta Mészáros dealt with her own fate and that of her family in a series of autobiographical diary films. She was temporarily (from 1960) married to the director Miklós Jancsó , with whom she also has two sons, some of whom have worked on her films as cameramen. Mészaros has been in a relationship with the Polish actor Jan Nowicki for years , who has played roles in numerous Márta Mészáros films since the mid-1970s.

In 2017 she received the Konrad Wolf Prize for her life's work and was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: The girl (Eltávozott nap)
  • 1970: Beautiful girls, don't cry (Szép lányok, ne sírjatok!)
  • 1975: Adoption (Örökbefogadás)
  • 1976: Nine months (Kilenc hónap) - (with Jan Nowicki )
  • 1978: Just like at home (Olyan mint otthon) (with Jan Nowicki and Anna Karina )
  • 1981: Beloved Anna (Anna)
  • 1984: Diary of my childhood (Napló gyermekeimnek) - (with Jan Nowicki and Anna Polony )
  • 1986: Diary for my loved ones (Napló szerelmeimnek)
  • 1990: Diary for my parents (Napló apámnak, anyámnak)
  • 1992: Edith and Marlene (biographical musical about Édith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich )
  • 1993: Anna, the surrogate mother (A magzat) (with Jan Nowicki)
  • 1995: Die Jüdin - Edith Stein (Siódmy pokój) (with Jan Nowicki and Maia Morgenstern as Edith Stein )
  • 1999: Daughters of Happiness (A szerencse lányai) (with Jan Nowicki and Olaf Lubaszenko )
  • 2000: Kisvilma - Az utolsó napló (with Jan Nowicki)
  • 2001: The wonderful mandarin (Csodálatos mandarin) , dance pantomime by Béla Bartók
  • 2004: A temetetlen halott
  • 2017: Aurora Borealis - Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis - Északi fény)

Fonts

  • Márta Mészáros: Napló magamról . Pelikán Kiadó, Budapest 1993. ISBN 963-8095-05-9 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner of the Berlinale 1975 , at the Berlinale Archive
  2. ↑ Awards of the Berlinale 2007 , accessed on April 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Konrad Wolf Prize for Márta Mészáros on deutschlandfunkkultur.de, August 23, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2017
  4. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
personal data
SURNAME Mészáros, Márta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kispest