Anna Czóbel (17 November 1918 – 9 December 2012) was a
Hungarian cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
who worked for
Magyar Televízió. She was a recipient of the
Meritorious Artist Award in 1975.
She is an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers.
Life and career
Anna Czóbel was born on 17 November 1918, the only daughter of
Ernő Czóbel, a literary historian, and
Sarolta Lányi, a poet and educator.
Her uncle was
Béla Czóbel
Béla Czóbel (4 September 1883 – 30 January 1976) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter, known for his association with The Eight (Nyolcak), The Eight in the early 20th century in Budapest. They were known for introducing Post-Im ...
, a well-known Hungarian painter.
She was four years old when her parents emigrated to
Moscow.
She graduated from the
State Institute of Cinematography in the Soviet Union and started working as an assistant cinematographer at
Soyuzdetfilm
Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed at ...
.
She returned to Hungary in 1945 and worked at Mafirt Krónika (a newsreel) and then at
Mafilm
Mafilm was established in 1948. It has been the largest and most significant film studio in Hungary and a strategic base for the Hungarian film industry. Mafilm's history has lived days of glory, just as it has survived severe deaths. The roots ...
.
In 1950, she became a lecturer at the
University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest
The Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest ( hu, Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem, SZFE) is an educational institution founded in 1865 in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary. It became a university in 2000 and the name was chan ...
, teaching cinematography to
Vilmos Zsigmond,
Sándor Sára and
István Gaál
István Gaál (25 August 1933 – 25 September 2007) was a Hungarian film director, editor and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1996. With ''Falcons'' he won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
S ...
, among others.
[MTI Ki kicsoda 2009. Szerk. Hermann Péter. Budapest: Magyar Távirati Iroda. 2008. ] She was a member of the Hungarian filming crew for the
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...
.
From 1958 to 1990 she worked for
Magyar Televízió as a cinematographer and then senior cinematographer; she tried herself in various television genres.
She retired in 1981, but kept working at the TV station for another nine years.
Selected works
* Beszélnek a színek (1953)
* Színek hatalma (1958)
* Ha én egyszer kinyitom a számat (1964)
* A művészet legyen mindenkié (1965)
* A parányok óriásai
*
Cicavízió (1961)
*
Jogi esetek
*
Kuckó (1968)
* Óvodások műsora
*
Zsebtévé (1965)
*
Vers mindenkinek
*
Marci és a kapitány (1978)
References
1918 births
2012 deaths
Hungarian women artists
Hungarian cinematographers
Artists of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic
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