György Kárpáti

1933–2023 (age 90)

Biography

György Kárpáti (born 3 July 1933 in Budapest) was a Hungarian film director whose most celebrated feature film is Nem szoktam hazudni (I Hardly Ever Lie, 1966). Over the last five decades of his life, he directed around 200 films, including documentaries, feature films, short films and commercials. His films won several awards at major international film festivals, and he received the Hungarian Programme of the Year award eight times for his television programmes.

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