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Márta Mészáros

Director

Márta Mészáros

Directing
1968 — present · 7 films
Born
19 September 1931 · age 94
From
Budapest, Hungary

Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length directorial debut, Eltavozott nap/The Girl (1968), was the first Hungarian film to have been directed by a woman, and won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival.

Career Signature

How Márta Mészáros’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.