Motion Picture Director. He was a leading figure of Hungary's "New Cinema". His feature "Merry-Go-Round" (1956), a colorful updating of "Romeo and Juliet", did much to open international markets to Eastern European films in the late 1950s. It was nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Fabri's "The Boys of Paul Street" (1968) received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film, and he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Moscow Festival for "141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence" (1975), the Grand Prize at Moscow for "The Fifth Seal" (1976), and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival for the screenplay of "Requiem" (1981). His other credits include "The Storm" (1952), "Professor Hannibal" (1956), "Darkness In Daytime" (1963), and "The Homecoming" (1983). Fabri was born in Budapest. He studied theatre design at the College of Fine Arts and directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Art. After spending most of World War II as a prisoner of war, he became a director at Budapest's National Theatre and made his screen debut in 1951. He wrote the scripts and designed the sets for most of his films. In his later years Fabri was President of the Union of Hungarian Cinema and Television Artists.
Motion Picture Director. He was a leading figure of Hungary's "New Cinema". His feature "Merry-Go-Round" (1956), a colorful updating of "Romeo and Juliet", did much to open international markets to Eastern European films in the late 1950s. It was nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Fabri's "The Boys of Paul Street" (1968) received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film, and he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Moscow Festival for "141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence" (1975), the Grand Prize at Moscow for "The Fifth Seal" (1976), and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival for the screenplay of "Requiem" (1981). His other credits include "The Storm" (1952), "Professor Hannibal" (1956), "Darkness In Daytime" (1963), and "The Homecoming" (1983). Fabri was born in Budapest. He studied theatre design at the College of Fine Arts and directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Art. After spending most of World War II as a prisoner of war, he became a director at Budapest's National Theatre and made his screen debut in 1951. He wrote the scripts and designed the sets for most of his films. In his later years Fabri was President of the Union of Hungarian Cinema and Television Artists.
Bio by: Bobb Edwards
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