Trivia

Father of director László Nemes and production manager Veronika Nemes-Jeles.

His Hungarian film Dieu n'existe pas (1993) [Why Wasn't He There?] addressed the Shoah: It tells the (fictional) story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl living in the countryside as the Nazis descended on Hungary in 1944. His son László Nemes later co-wrote and directed the acclaimed Le fils de Saul (2015), a film about the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.