Péter Gárdos

Péter Gárdos, born in Budapest on 8 June 1948, is the son of two Holocaust survivors. A graduate in 1971 of Eötvös Loránd University, as a teacher of Hungarian and Russian, he joined the Mafilm newsreel and documentary studio, first as an assistant, then as a director. This film was his first feature-length fiction film, and Szamárköhögés followed in 1987. In 2010, he published Hajnali láz, a novel drawn from the letters his parents had written to each other in Sweden after the war and which he discovered on his father's death; the book has appeared in more than thirty countries.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Philadelphia AttractionUramistenPéter Gárdos · 1984Cinema