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In Remembrance: Pal Erdoss
Pal Erdoss, the
Hungarian film director whose first feature film The Princess
won the Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Award in 1983, has passed
away on February 14, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary. He was 60.
Born on
February 9, 1947 in Budapest, Erdoss worked as a location scout and
assistant director for Hungarian State Television before going into
film. His first film, The Princess told the story of a
teenage girl who travels from her country home to Budapest to work
in a textile mill. It won the Cannes Film Festival’s Golden Camera
Award, which is given to first-time directors.
Erdoss
preferred to concentrate on themes that explored Hungarian social
problems and often championed the underdog. His other feature films
include Countdown (1983), Tolerance (1986), A
Light-Sensitive Story (1993) and Last Seen Wearing A Blue
Skirt (1997). His final film, Lads Of Budakeszi
chronicled the life of a young boy during the 1956 anti-Soviet
uprising, screened the previous week at Budapest’s 38th
Hungarian Film Week. |
