André Libik

André Libik (* February 25, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary) is a film producer, director and writer. After World War 2 his father Albert Libik, who was an influential businessman in Budapest, sent him to an elite boarding school located in Switzerland. Returning to Budapest, first he studies chemistry upon the wish of his father and older brother George Libik, but later enrolls in the Hungarian Film Academy. He has to leave Hungary in 1956, after the Hungarian Revolution. He settles in Paris with his wife and two daughters as a refugee. There he directs his first films for the French Red Cross, unpaid. After his successful application as Head of the Film Division in the Nigerian Ministry of Information, he lives in Africa for three years and produces films, one of which wins the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1963 he moves to Germany and works for television, establishes his own film production company, creating many documentaries, TV and feature films. He is awarded the “Grimme-Preis”, the top German TV award. In 1992, he settles in Hungary again, continues to produce films and wins the “Golden Butterfly Award”.