The news of his death was announced by the Hungarian Film Academy.
His biography is available on the website of the Hungarian Academy of Arts according to Ferenc András was born on November 24, 1942 in Budapest. His childhood and upbringing are linked to the Balaton highlands, specifically to the city of Sümeg, whose region has appeared many times in his films.
Sümegen also had his first childhood experiences with motion pictures. Later, when he went to the cinema on his own in the capital, the Hungarian film successes of the time (e.g. Miska Magnás, Liliomfi) was strongly influenced by the works of Italian neorealism. However, his most significant experience was a Polish film: Andrzej Wajda Ashes and diamonds his masterpiece.
During his four years in high school, Ferenc András visited several educational institutions, as a precocious teenager he read a lot and sometimes went to the cinema instead of going to school. Since he failed his matriculation exam, he was unable to go to university, and took a job as a factory assistant and then as an apprentice worker.
He thought regarding becoming a film actor. László Ranódy applied as a child actor as a teenager The culprit is unknown to his film. He was featured as an extra Two floors of happiness in the 1960 comedy. His increased interest in cinema first led him to television – he worked there between 1962 and 1966 – and then in 1966 to the film factory, where he became an assistant director at Studio I. Filmed alongside László Ranódy, Zoltán Fábri, Félix Máriássy, Sándor Sára, among others. In addition to the above, Károly Makk had an impact on his later career as a director.
In addition to the professional workshops, his life, upbringing and culture were influenced in a non-negligible way by the so-called Muskátli-kör, which got its name from a press on Váci Street. The independent-thinking young artists and intellectuals who visited there, who did not rub shoulders with the authorities, and who were sometimes oppositional, had a significant impact on the formation and development of his worldview. The University Theater and its open-minded programming policy of the sixties also played an important role in his life.
In 1969, he was admitted to the College of Theater and Film Arts, where he obtained a directing degree in 1973. He joined the work of Balázs Béla Studio; arranged there Dózsa’s people his short film with an ironic approach. His first full-length film (The devil beats his wife) filmed in rather poor conditions,
for example, he didn’t get enough raw material, the crew had to save every centimeter of celluloid.
He also filmed a lot for television, and his most successful production there was Final sale became. In 1977, he signed the so-called Democratic Charter, in which Hungarian intellectuals and artists protested once morest the measures of the Czechoslovakian dictatorship. Because of this, he might not shoot another feature film for several years.
For a while in the eighties, he was the leader of Mafilm’s independent acting company. Later, he managed the Dialog Film Studio. From 1991, his name might also be read as a producer on the title of feature films. When Duna TV, managed by Sándor Sára, founded an independent dubbing workshop, he was entrusted with its management (1998). With his co-writer, Miklós Munkácsi, he made the sequel to his first film The devil still beats his wife script, but it was never implemented.
He has won numerous domestic and international film awards with his works. Between 2013 and 2024, he was a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
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