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Filmmaker · Hungary

Márton Keleti

Died in 1973

Márton Keleti was born in Budapest on 26 April 1905, into a Jewish family. Trained at the Academy of Music, he first worked in the theatre, mainly in the musical genre, then moved to cinema; his first film was released in 1937. The anti-Jewish laws prevented him from working during the war; in 1945 he made one of the first Hungarian films of the peace. From 1950 he headed the film section of the Academy of Theatre and Film, directed some fifty films, received the Kossuth Prize three times and died in Budapest on 20 June 1973.

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