György Palásthy

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.

Directed

1. Return Ticket (1997) — Director
2. That Lovely Green Grass (1979) — Director
3. The Naked Diplomat (1963) — Director
4. A Harum-Scarum Family (1981) — Director
5. Hi, Junior! (1971) — Director
6. Giddy Vacations (1987) — Director
7. The Heir (1969) — Director
8. On Home Grounds (1969) — Director
9. The Music of Life (1984) — Director
10. Vacations on the Dead Street (1978) — Director
11. The Widow and the Police Officer (1967) — Director
12. A Bus Does Not Stop (1962) — Director
13. Másfél millió (1964) — Director
14. Ketten haltak meg (1966) — Director
15. S.O.S. Szobafogság! (1987) — Director
16. Junior Jr. Comes (1972) — Director
17. Faithful for Nothing (1966) — Director
18. Upside Down (1976) — Director
19. The Rebellion of the Straw Men (2001) — Director
20. The Wizard (1969) — Director
21. A Lad on White Horse (1973) — Director
22. Pikemen (1975) — Director
23. Bors (1968) — Director
24. Isten óvd a királyt (1968) — Director