Born in 1921, Vac, Hungary. After studies in law, ethnography and art history at Kolozsvar University (now in Romania), he studied film directing at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. In the fifties he made news and documentary films before directing his first feature film in 1958. In 1963, Cantata made him recognized as “possessing the crisis mentality of intellects rarely found in communist films”. Since then he became widely known to Europe with The Round-up and The Red and the white, deemed the greatest film in films history. His films, mostly reflecting the history of repeating violence and repression, have been making their fame by the bold and powerful mise en scene staged in Hungarian great plain, the long take cinematography beautifully capturing moving characters and the choreography direction.