Anna Czóbel (17 November 1918 – 9 December 2012) was a Hungarian

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who worked for

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. 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

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, a well-known Hungarian painter. She was four years old when her parents emigrated to

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. She graduated from the State Institute of Cinematography in the Soviet Union and started working as an assistant cinematographer at

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. 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 seen days of glory, just as it has survived severe agonies. The roots ...

. In 1950, she became a lecturer at the

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, teaching cinematography to

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and

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, 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

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. From 1958 to 1990 she worked for

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 Jogi may refer to: Art and entertainment * ''Jogi'' (2005 film), a Kannada film * "Jogi" (Panjabi MC song), 2003 * "Jogi" (The Sketches song), a song by Pakistani Sufi-rock band The Sketches *"Jogi", a song performed by Arko * ''Jogi'' (2022 fi ...

* Kuckó (1968) * Óvodások műsora * Zsebtévé (1965) *

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Marci és a kapitány ''Marci és a kapitány'' (lit. Marci and the Captain) is a Hungarian series of animated puppet films produced in 1977-1978. Narrators * Marci: Gertrúd Havas * Captain: Lajos Varanyi * Mrs Orsolya: Irén Szöllősy * Anikó: Ildikó Simá ...

(1978)

References

1918 births 2012 deaths Hungarian women artists Hungarian cinematographers Artists of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic {{cinematographer-stub