Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros

September 19, 1931 · 95 years old

Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length directorial debut, Eltavozott nap/T…

Known For

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Adoption

Adoption

1975 · 1h 29m · Movie

A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.

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Aurora Borealis: Northern Light

Aurora Borealis: Northern Light

2017 · 1h 44m · Movie

Olga is a successful, workaholic lawyer from Vienna. She discovers a dark family secret that makes her question her whole life. She begins to search for answers, but her mother, Maria has done everything she could to avoid the tru...

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Diary for My Children

Diary for My Children

1984 · 1h 46m · Movie

Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.

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The Day Has Gone

The Day Has Gone

1968 · 1h 30m · Movie

On receiving a letter from her mother, a quiet working-class girl leaves the state orphanage in Budapest where she grew up and takes a trip to the rural countryside to visit her.

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Don't Cry, Pretty Girls!

Don't Cry, Pretty Girls!

1970 · 1h 24m · Movie

Savanyú and his friends work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night: Sex, parties and concerts. Savanyú dates Juli, who works in workers' hostels with the other girls. T...

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Nine Months

Nine Months

1976 · 1h 28m · Movie

A village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The work manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.

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Binding Sentiments

Binding Sentiments

1969 · 1h 38m · Movie

After her husband dies, a woman questions her love for her husband and whether or not to accept money from the insurance policy. Tensions mount when her estranged son returns to the familial home with his girlfriend.

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Bye bye chaperon rouge

Bye bye chaperon rouge

1989 · 1h 34m · Movie

Little Red Riding Hood lives in a forest with her mother, who is a meteorologist, and experiences unusual things.

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