Zoltán Fábri
Zoltán Fábri | |
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Born | |
Died | 23 August 1994 | (aged 76)
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1951–1983 |
Zoltán Fábri (15 October 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a
Life and career
Fábri wanted to become an artist from an early age on. He studied painting and graduated at the
Fábri's style of filmmaking can be described mainly as "classical", using academic techniques of art filmmaking. His greatest influences were the
At the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979, he was awarded with the Honorable Prize for the contribution to cinema.[9]
He was known as a perfectionist who wrote, drawn and choreographed every scene to the most precise detail months before production began and never improvised anything. His reputation as a rigid, tyrannical director was somewhat contradicted by his friendly and kind behaviour towards the British and American child actors on the set of The Boys of Paul Street.
Fábri made nearly all of his films based on literary material (novels or short stories) and wrote the screenplays himself. His constant theme was the question of humanity. Many of his films are set in or around World War II. Two of his frequent collaborators were actress Mari Törőcsik and cinematographer György Illés. In 1969 he played the role of prosecuted statesman Zoltán Dániel in his friend Péter Bacsó's cult satire, A tanú (The Witness) as his sole acting job.
Fábri died in a
Filmography
Title | Year | International Title | Director | Screenwriter | Production Designer | Actor |
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Maddie the Goose-boy | 1950 | |||||
Déryné | 1951 | |||||
Vihar | 1952 | Storm | ||||
Erkel | 1952 | |||||
Életjel | 1954 | Fourteen Lives | ||||
Dandin György, avagy a megcsúfolt férj | 1955 | |||||
Körhinta | 1956 | Merry Go-Round | ||||
Hannibál tanár úr | 1956 | Professor Hannibal | ||||
Bolond április
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1957 | Summer Clouds | ||||
Édes Anna | 1958 | Sweet Anna | ||||
Dúvad
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1961 | Brute | ||||
Két félidő a pokolban | 1962 | The Last Goal | ||||
Nappali sötétség | 1963 | Darkness in Daytime | ||||
Vízivárosi nyár | 1964 | Hard Summer (TV series) | ||||
Húsz óra | 1965 | Twenty Hours | ||||
Útószezon | 1966 | Late Season | ||||
A Pál-utcai fiúk | 1969 | The Boys of Paul Street | ||||
Isten hozta, őrnagy úr! | 1969 | The Tóth Family | ||||
A tanú | 1969 | The Witness | ||||
Hangyayaboly | 1971 | Ant Hill | ||||
Plusz-mínusz egy nap | 1973 | Plus-Minus One Day | ||||
141 perc a befejezetlen mondatból | 1975 | 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence | ||||
Az ötödik pecsét | 1976 | The Fifth Seal | ||||
Magyarok | 1978 | Hungarians | ||||
Fábián Bálint találkozása Istennel | 1980 | Bálint Fábian Meets God | ||||
Requiem | 1981 | |||||
Gyertek el a névnapomra | 1983 | Housewarming |
References
- ISBN 978-1838718497.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ "The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
- ^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
- ^ "7th Moscow International Film Festival (1971)". MIFF. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
- ^ "9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975)". MIFF. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
- ^ "10th Moscow International Film Festival (1977)". MIFF. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for The Fifth Seal". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
- ^ "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)". MIFF. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
External links
- Zoltán Fábri at IMDb