Géza Bereményi

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.^[2]

Géza Bereményi
Born	Géza Vetró (1946-01-25) 25 January 1946 (age 79) Budapest, Hungary
Years active	1972-present
Spouses	Tünde Hámos (1999-present) (2 children)[1] Eszter Balás (1976-1999) (divorced) (1 child) Udvarnoki Edit (1970-1972) (divorced) (1 child) Szász-Bogdán Gyöngyvér (?-1976) (divorced)

Biography

Born as Géza Vetró in Budapest, Hungary. His father Géza Vetró senior, an ethnic Hungarian from Transylvania (then part of Romania) 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 Vienna 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 World War II, 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.^[3] After a year's compulsory military service, he studied Hungarian and Italian Literature and Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, graduating in 1970. He then worked for the marketing department of a publishing house in Budapest for a few years. Eventually, he got a job translating films and fitting the text to the movement of actors' lips for dubbing. He worked on the Hungarian version of The Graduate among many others, he quit in 1978.