Pál Sándor

Pál Sándor

producer, director, writer

Pál Sándor was born on Oct 19, 1939 in Hungary. Pál Sándor's big-screen debut came with Football of the Good Old Days directed by Pál Sándor in 1973. Pál Sándor is known for Soul Exodus directed by Csaba Bereczki, Michael Alpert stars as Self and Daniel Kahn as Self. Pál Sándor has got 8 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Pál Sándor achieved is Cannes Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Pál Sándor plays is The Troupe which will be released on Mar 08, 2018.

Pál Sándor is a renowned director and producer of both the Hungarian and international film industry. After graduating the Theatre and Film Academy as a film director, he worked from the mid-nineteen sixties in Studio 3 of Mafilm and close to twenty years in Hunnia Filmstudio where he was deputy director between 1985 and 1989, and managing director from 2003 to 2011. Pál Sándor was a long-time teacher of the Theatre and Film Academy. For over ten years he was the owner and Managing Director of Novofilm, a Hungarian-German film production company. In 2000 he founded his own film production firm, Filmstreet. Pál Sándor holds the most prestigious Hungarian film awards: the Prima Primissima Prize, the Kossuth Prize, the Béla Balázs Prize and the Outstanding and Excellent Artist Award, along with 24 international accolades like the Silver Bear from Berlin, the Fipresci Prize from Cannes, the Silver Hugo from Chicago, and the Critics' Prize from Karlovy Vary, just to name a few.

  • Birthday

    Oct 19, 1939
  • Place of Birth

    Budapest, Hungary

Known For

Awards

8 wins & 6 nominations

Cannes Film Festival
1983
Szerencsés Dániel (1983)
Winner - FIPRESCI Prize
Hungarian Film Week
1983
Szerencsés Dániel (1983)
Winner - Grand Prize
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