André Libik

André Libik was born on 25 February 1932 in Budapest, the son of a businessman who sent him to boarding school in Switzerland. Back in Hungary, he studied chemistry to please his family before entering film school, which he had to leave for political reasons. He translated French and Hungarian authors, took part in the uprising of 1956 and went into exile in Paris, where he made three short films for the French Red Cross. Head of the film division at the Nigerian Ministry of Information from 1960 to 1962, he then settled in Germany, where he became a major television documentary maker. He died in 2025.

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• CinemaThe AncestorsAndré Libik · 1962Cinema