László Kalmár

László Kalmár was born in Budapest on 16 December 1900. A film extra in the studios from 1916, he obtained an engineering degree in 1920, then learned the trade in the crews of major directors, including Korda and Kertész, as a screenwriter and production manager. Editor of Édes mostoha in 1935, he directed seventeen or eighteen feature films between 1938 and 1944, then made nothing more until 1951, the year of Déryné, which earned him the Kossuth Prize the following year. He died in Budapest on 30 May 1980.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaDeadly SpringHalálos tavaszLászló Kalmár · 1939Cinema