Zoltán Fábri

Zoltán Fábri born Zoltán Furtkovics 15 October 1917 23 August 1994 was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter After graduating from the Hungarian College of Fine Arts Fábri began in the local film industry as a production designer and directed his first film in 1951 His third feature Merry Go Round 1956 brought him international acclaim Fábris style can be described mainly as classical utilising academic techniques of art filmmaking His greatest influences were Italian Neorealism and French Poetic Realism he experimented with narrative and flashback technique in the 1960sparticularly with Darkness in Daytime 1963 and Twenty Hours 1965and The Fifth Seal 1976 the latter containing some highly surrealist scenes