Pál Fejős

Pál Fejős was born in Budapest on 24 January 1897 and became a doctor. A set designer and then a director in Hungary in the early twenties, he left the country in 1923 for New York, where he worked as a laboratory technician at the Rockefeller Institute before making his breakthrough in Hollywood with Lonesome, in 1928. Back in Europe in 1931, he made films in France, Hungary, Austria and Denmark, then distant ethnographic films. He left cinema for anthropology, directed the Wenner-Gren Foundation from 1941 and died in New York on 23 April 1963.

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• CinemaSpring ShowerTavaszi záporPál Fejős · 1932Cinema