Sándor Zákonyi Explained

Sándor Zákonyi
Birth Date:	17 March 1915
Birth Place:	Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Date:	23 August 1981 (aged 66)
Death Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Occupation:	Film Editor, Director
Yearsactive:	1938–1976 (film & TV)

Sándor Zákonyi (1915–1981) was a Hungarian film editor.^{[1] [2]} He also worked as an assistant director and directed the 1944 comedy film Midnight Waltz. He was particularly active during the post-Second World War years, at a time when Hungarian film production had fallen to low levels.

Selected filmography

• Dream Waltz (1943)
• The White Train (1943)
• Midnight Waltz (1944)
• The Schoolmistress (1945)
• The Siege of Beszterce (1948)
• Janika (1949)
• Mickey Magnate (1949)
• A Woman Gets a Start (1949)
• Singing Makes Life Beautiful (1950)
• A Strange Marriage (1951)
• Erkel (1952)
• Try and Win (1952)
• The State Department Store (1953)
• Rakoczy's Lieutenant (1954)
• Accident (1955)
• The Bridge of Life (1956)
• The Football Star (1957)
• Two Confessions (1957)
• What a Night! (1958)
• Up the Slope (1959)
• Sunshine on the Ice (1961)
• Land of Angels (1962)
• Car Crazy (1965)
• The Testament of Aga Koppanyi (1967)

Bibliography

• Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.
• Cunningham, John. The Cinema of Istvan Szabo: Visions of Europe. Columbia University Press, 2014.

Notes and References

1. Cunningham p.153
2. Cowie & Elley p.246