Judit Elek
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1937 — Present
Film director, screenwriter
Personal Info
- Born
- Nov 10, 1937
- Age
- 88
- Birth Place
- Budapest, Hungary
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The native form of this personal name is Elek Judit. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Judit Elek
Born 10 November 1937
Budapest, Hungary
Died 1 October 2025 (aged 87)
Occupations Film director, screenwriter
Years active 1962–2006
Judit Elek (10 November 1937 – 1 October 2025) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She directed sixteen films between 1962 and 2006. Her film Mária-nap was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
As a child, she survived the Second World War first in a sheltered house on Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, and then in the ghetto (November 1944 – January 1945). From 1956 to 1961, Elek studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, in the class of film director Félix Máriássy. Her classmates included Pál Gábor, Imre Gyöngyössy, Zoltán Huszárik, Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó.
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You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Hungarian. (April 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
The native form of this personal name is Elek Judit. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Judit Elek
Born 10 November 1937
Budapest, Hungary
Died 1 October 2025 (aged 87)
Occupations Film director, screenwriter
Years active 1962–2006
Judit Elek (10 November 1937 – 1 October 2025) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She directed sixteen films between 1962 and 2006. Her film Mária-nap was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
As a child, she survived the Second World War first in a sheltered house on Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, and then in the ghetto (November 1944 – January 1945). From 1956 to 1961, Elek studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, in the class of film director Félix Máriássy. Her classmates included Pál Gábor, Imre Gyöngyössy, Zoltán Huszárik, Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó.
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