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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.
Mészáros' work often combines autobiographical details with documentary footage. Prominent themes include characters' denials of their pasts, the consequences of dishonesty, and the problematics of gender. Her films often feature heroines from fragmented families, such as young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle-aged women looking to adopt children (Adoption).
Although Mészáros has made over fifteen feature films, she is arguably best known for Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first entry in a trilogy of autobiographical films which also includes Diary for my Lovers (1987) and Diary for my Father and Mother (1990).
Throughout her career, Mészáros has won the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale; the Golden Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival; the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival; and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
Most Popular Márta Mészáros Trailers
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22 November 1979
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother.
10 November 1994
This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman.
24 September 1984
A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
12 August 1981
Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.
01 October 1987
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
06 June 1980
During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money.
02 February 2012
Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.
01 January 2010
Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.
03 February 2000
The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under Stalinist period when several innocent people were persecuted for no fault.
20 October 1983
Officer Karikas from Petersburg should be in Saratov with her servant,in the way he played cards and losing much,even to stuck in the hotel.
25 November 1976
Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.
18 August 1974
Young Petőfi Zoltán the son of the great Hungarian poet, Petőfi Sándor, feels as though he were a stranger in the house of his mother and stepfather.
25 September 1975
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply.
15 October 2009
Péter, a literary critic, is tasked by the secret police to persuade Social Democratic politician, Anna Kéthly, who has been living in exile for decades, to return home.
02 January 1990
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
01 January 1958
Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of different ethnicities, pointing out the benefits that the communist organization had brought to their daily lives.
01 January 2017
What if democracy fails citizens by not serving them all equally? What if inequality becomes the norm and the most vulnerable citizens are left behind with no money, no home, no rights, and no country of their own? In Hungary, the government has slashed social benefits and criminalized homelessness, but a group of activists, homeless and middle class, is confronting authorities to defend social justice and their right to be citizens.
01 January 1993
The lifelong friendship of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.
03 May 1984
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
14 March 2006
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career.
26 October 1978
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back to his former great love.
30 May 1973
Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie.
03 December 1970
Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night, i.
19 October 2017
The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter.
09 January 1969
Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident.
05 January 1978
Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.
21 October 2004
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary.
15 December 1989
Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has three encounters that will change her life forever: an apparently kind and gentle wolf, a city boy and an ornithologist who bears a striking resemblance to the father who long ago abandoned her and her mother.
06 June 1996
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister.
10 December 1999
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
01 January 1957
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no.
16 May 1968
A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.
11 March 2002
The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and conversations with him.
01 January 2015
Márta Mészáros' father, the sculptor László Mészáros, was executed during the Stalinist purges of the Soviet Union.
07 February 2001
A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok
08 April 1965
A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't escape an unbearable ennui.
31 December 1979
Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and cres
18 March 1959
The film presents several young people from rural areas whom the new communist regime helped to integrate into the labor field of the socialist state, thus breaking with the ancestral tradition.
01 January 1968
Hungarian documentary that commemorates the life and work of director and artist László Mészáros through archival footage and personal testimonies.
01 January 1960
Socialist industry manufactures only those products absolutely required by workers, citizens purchase only those items essential for their everyday lives – claims the film, thereby differentiating the operational principles of domestic industry and trade from those of capitalist countries.
01 January 1955
Short movie by Marta Meszaros
06 April 1972
A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ shorts, this work has foundations in autobiography, and she would later return to this particular world in one of her fiction features.
