Zoltán Fábri

Born in 1917 in Budapest, died in 1994. Hungarian Director, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and acting faculty of the School of Dramatic Art in Budapest. His filmmaking career started as early as in the 1940s when he made some social realist style films, but he managed to surpass the ideological forms with the internationally appreciated melodrama Merry-Go-Round (Kőrhinta, 1995) and tragicomedy Professor Hannibal (Hannibál tanár úr, 1956, awarded in Karlovy Vary). Fábri’s talent flourished in the 1960s, when he made his most distinguished works in the atmosphere of liberalisation of censorship. The most outstanding films by Fábri include: the reckoning Twenty Hours (Húsz óra, 1964, Grand Prix in Moscow), social and political drama Late Season (Utószezon, 1966, awarded in Venice), popular adaptation of the novel by Ferenc Molnár The Boys from Paul Street (A pál-utcai fiúk, 1968) and the war film 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence (141 perc a befejezetlen mondatból, 1974, awarded in Berlin).