Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros was born in Budapest on 19 September 1931, the daughter of the sculptor László Mészáros. Her parents emigrated to the Soviet Union in the mid-thirties; her father was arrested there and executed under Stalin, her mother died, and an adoptive mother raised her until her return to Hungary in 1946. A graduate of the Moscow film school in 1956, she made documentaries, then her first feature film in 1968. Winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin in 1975, she devoted most of her work to the destinies of women.

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• CinemaDiary for My ChildrenNapló gyermekeimnekMárta Mészáros · 1984Cinema