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Judit Elek (Hungary, 1937), a founding member of the Balazs Bela Studio, debuted with shorts and documentaries, and then directed Sziget a Szarazfoldon/ The Lady from Constantinople (1969).
In the next decade she mostly directed documentaries.
Then came her most productive decade, during which she made:
Vizsgalat Martinovics Ignac Szaszvari Apat es Tarsainak Ugyeben/ The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1980),
Majd Holnap/ Maybe Tomorrow (1980),
Maria-nap/ Maria's Day (1984),
and
Tutajosok/ Memories of a River (1990), for which 14 sheep were burned alive.
Her last films were
Ebredes/ Awakening (1995) and
A Het Nyolcadik Napja/ The Eighth Day of the Week (2006).
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