György Palásthy
- Directing
- January 12, 1931 · Esztergom, Hungary
- April 16, 2012
Biography
György Palásthy ( Esztergom , January 12 , 1931 – Budapest , April 16, 2012 ) Hungarian film director and screenwriter, winner of the Béla Balázs Prize . His parents were Sándor Palásthy and Anna Blahovics. He was studying electrical engineering when he won a literary competition at the age of 16. In 1950, he was admitted to the Academy of Theater and Film Arts , where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in film directing. He then became an employee of Mafilm . His first work was the script for the 1959 film Kölyök . He became one of the first managers of the Balázs Béla Studio, founded in 1959 . From 1960, he also worked for Hungarian Television . In 1961, Is Everyone Innocent? was his first independent direction of the feature film. In 1962, he married Ilona Dávid. They had three children: Ágnes (1954), György (1958) and Beáta (1963). He directed children's films from 1969. He was a board member of the Film Arts Association.
Known for
Filmography
- The Rebellion of the Straw Men · Director
- Return Ticket · Director
- S.O.S. Szobafogság! · Director
- Giddy Vacations · Screenplay, Director
- The Music of Life · Director
- A Harum-Scarum Family · Director
- That Lovely Green Grass · Director
- Vacations on the Dead Street · Director
- Upside Down · Director
- Pikemen · Director, Screenplay
- A Lad on White Horse · Director
- Junior Jr. Comes · Director
- Hi, Junior! · Director
- The Wizard · Director
- The Heir · Director
- On Home Grounds · Director
- Isten óvd a királyt · Director, Writer
- Bors · Director
- The Widow and the Police Officer · Director
- Faithful for Nothing · Director
- Ketten haltak meg · Director
- Másfél millió · Director, Writer
- The Naked Diplomat · Writer, Director
- A Bus Does Not Stop · Director
- Alba Regia · Writer
- Our Kid · Writer
- VII. Olivér · Writer