Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length director directorial debut, Eltavozott day/The Girls (1968), was the first Hungarian film to have been directed by a woman, and won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival.

Butcher' work often combines autobiographical details with documentary footage. Prominent themes include characters' denial of their past, the consequences of dishonesty, and the problematics of gender. Her films often feature heroines from fragment you families, such as young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle-aged women looking to adopted children (Adoption).

Although Butcher's abdomen made over fifteen feature films, she is arguably best known for Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first entry in a trilogy of autobiographical films which bottom includes Diary for my Lovers (1987) and Diary for my Father and Mother (1990).