Géza Sándor Bereményi (born 25 January 1946) is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film director. He was awarded Best European Director for his film Eldorado at the 2nd European Film Awards.

Biography

Born as Géza Vetró in Budapest, Hungary. His father Géza Vetró senior, an ethnic Hungarian from

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(then part of

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) escaped from the Romanian military draft to Budapest where he met and married Bereményi's mother, Éva Mária Bereményi, who was 16 at the time. They soon fled to

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after Géza Vetró received the Hungarian Military's call-up as well. They returned to Budapest a year later in January 1946, after the end of

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, shortly before Bereményi's birth. Until the age of six Bereményi was raised by his maternal grandparents Sándor and Róza Bereményi, who owned and operated a fruit and vegetable stall at Teleki Market in Józsefváros area of Budapest. After a year's compulsory military service, he studied Hungarian and Italian

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and

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at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, graduating in 1970. He then worked for the marketing department of a publishing house in

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for a few years. Eventually, he got a job translating films and fitting the text to the movement of actors' lips for

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. He worked on the Hungarian version of

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among many others, he quit in 1978.

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* 1946 births Living people Writers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters Hungarian male screenwriters Hungarian film directors European Film Award for Best Director winners {{Hungary-film-director-stub