FILMOGRAPHY

  • Fifth Seal
    The (The Fifth Seal)
    Hungarians (Magyars)
    Professor Hannibal (Hannibal Tanar Ur)
    Requiem
    Two Half Times In Hell (Ket Felidö A Pokolban)
    Unfinished Sentence
    The (141 Minutes of Unfinished Mondarbol)

  • FILMS SHOWN IN FESTIVAL ON WHEELS

  • Lament
    (Requiem)
    Hell Two Circuits
    (Ket Felido in HellTwo Half in Hell)
    Unfinished Sentence
    (141 Minutes From Unfinished Mondarbol)
    Fifth Seal
    (The Fifth Brush)
    Hungarians
    (Hungarians)
    Professor Hannibal
    (Hannibal Tanar Ur)

Zoltan Fabri

Fabri was born in Budapest in 1917. he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1935, but changed course in 1938 and enrolled in the Academy of Film and Drama to become a stage director. From 1941 he was a member of National Theatre as a director, stage designer and as an actor. Between 1945-50 he staged plays in several theatres. Fabri's career as a film director took off in the "socialist realist" 1950s when he first worked as artistic director to become a film director in 1952. Fabri spent much of the 2nd World War as a prisoner of war. He returned to his devastated country as a passionate anti-fascist, determined to make films "in defence of human dignity". His first film The Storm (1952) was a drama about the collectivisation of a village. Merry-go-round, presented at Cannes in 1956 was astonishing for the beauty of its images and feelings. Also in 1956 he made Professor Hannibal, the tragedy of a man broken by the pressure of his conformist milieu; honoured at the Karlovy Vary Festival, raised the problem of heritage of fascist past and indirectly attacked the oppressive atmosphere of the Stalinist period. Following the political events in 1956, it was excluded from Hungarian screens. Having given the Hungarian cinema an international audience, in 1968 he directed The Boys of Paul Street. This touching story of childhood heroism was nominated for an Oscar. In 1974 he made The Unfinished Sentence, which brought him a Special Jury Prize at Moscow. He returned then to moral analysis of the war time period with The Fifth Seal, a work of deep psychological insight, which received the Grand Prize at Moscow and remains one of the director's best films. With Hungarians, he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1978. In Requiem, he sets the tragic consequences of the post-war political dislocations against the drama of a young girl. In attempting thus renew his method, he succeeded once again in powerfully expressing the message of a great moralist. In a