Márton Garas(1885-1930)

The director Márton Garas is a significant figure of the silent film period in Hungary. He got his degree at the School for Dramatic Arts in 1906. In 1907 he started working for the Hungarian Theatre. He got acquainted with the basics of film-making in Berlin, Germany. In the Spring of 1915 the film director and studio manager Jenö Janovics invited him to the Proja company in Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca). Later he worked in Budapest for the Astra, Uranus, Uher and Hungária companies, and between 1919-1921 he worked at the Corvin studio. He later moved to Germany. For a short time in 1924, he acted as the director of the Theatre of the Inner City, but he returned to Berlin at the end of the year. Garas directed about 40 film, mostly literary adaptations, like the moving Anna Karenina (1918) and A Táncosnö (1919).