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Filmmaker · Hungary

Zoltán Fábri

Died in 1994

Zoltán Fábri, born Zoltán Furtkovits in Budapest on 15 October 1917, studied painting at the School of Fine Arts, then drama, before working in the theatre as a director and set designer. He joined the Hunnia studios in 1950, first as artistic director, and made his first film in the early fifties. He directed twenty-two or twenty-three, often drawn from the literature of his country, two of which were nominated for the Oscar for foreign-language film. Three times winner of the Kossuth Prize, he died in Budapest on 23 August 1994.

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