Szilárd Újhelyi

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Szilárd Újhelyi (Debrecen, November 28, 1915 - Budapest, July 30, 1996) was a Hungarian politician, cultural politician, editor.

He graduated from the Debrecen University of Science in 1937. In 1937, one of the founders of the March Front, page editor. In 1940 he joined the MKP. He participated in the resistance movement. He was arrested twice, was held for three years under police surveillance. From 1945 he worked as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Welfare.

From 1948 he was Secretary General of the Cultural Relations Institute. In 1950, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Hungarian Radio.

Arrested on March 5, 1951, he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. He was rehabilitated on July 23, 1954, and was appointed Chief Film Director. In 1955 it belonged to the circle of Imre Nagy, the internal opposition of the communist party. On October 23, 1956, he attended a meeting at Imre Nagy's apartment. In the days of the 1956 Revolution he was counseled by Imre Nagy. After the fall of the revolution, he fled to the Yugoslav Embassy. On November 23, he was hurled with Imre Nagy to Snagov, Romania.

He returned to Hungary in 1958. He became a member of the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he was promoted to the film profession, from June 1962 he was deputy director of the Institute of Film Sciences, from January 1963. In 1967-1968 he was head of the Publishing Department of the Ministry of Culture and then head of the Film Arts Department until 1972. From 1972 until the retirement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from January 1973 to 1977, Hungary's UNESCO ambassador to Paris.

In 1988 he was the founding member and then president of the New Martial Front; a founder of the Historical Justice Committee, the vice president of the Mihály Károlyi Society. In 1991 he was president and then honorary president of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation.