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Ferenc Fekete

Hungarian cinematographer (1914-1981)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ20436921 ↗
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Ferenc Fekete (27 March 1914 – 24 July 1981) was a Hungarian cinematographer and film director. He was noted for his camerawork on the 1942 neorealist film People of the Mountains (1942) After the Second World War he emigrated to Brazil where he set up a production company with fellow Hungarian Rudolf Icsey.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1981, 1942—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-03-27. The account is most persuasive where Ferenc, Fekete and Hungarian can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20436921. VIAF identifies the subject as 316564844. The Library of Congress control number is no2015084897. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1981 and 1942.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ferenc Fekete” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.