György Kárpáti (film director)
György Kárpáti (born 3 July 1933 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director whose most celebrated feature film is "Nem szoktam hazudni" ("I Hardly Ever Lie", 1966). Over the last five decades he has directed around 200 films, including documentaries, feature films, short films and commercials. His films have won several awards at major international film festivals, and he has received the Hungarian Programme of the Year award eight times for his television programmes. Career. György Kárpáti received his first degree in medicine in 1957 and his second degree in film directing in 1964. He was  employed until 1991 as a film director by the MAFILM-MOVI studios of the Hungarian state film industry. As a freelance producer-director he was responsible for more than 300 productions for the Hungarian Television Network, including comedies, music shows, documentaries, scientific programmes, live broadcasts, variety shows, and programmes on jazz and the cinema. From 1973-83 he was commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross to shoot documentaries in 80 countries over five continents. From his graduation in 1964 until his retirement in 1999 he taught non-fiction directing and editing at the Academy of Drama and  Film (SzFF) in Budapest. Honours. As a member of the Executive Board of the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), he was made Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France in 1992 and of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1998, both distinctions given for his contribution to European art teaching and for bilateral cultural relations.