Mészáros is a Hungarian director and screenwriter, most famous for her autobiographical trilogy Diaries that describes events from the Hungarian anti-Stalinist revolution. At the age of five, Mészáros and her family immigrated to the Soviet Union. Two years later her father, the sculptor Laszlo Meszaros, was arrested, imprisoned and never seen again. Soon, her mother died from typhoid fever and in 1946 Marta returned to Hungary. Later, she went back to the Soviet Union to study film, and she used events from that period as a basis for her autobiographical trilogy Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek, 1984), Diary for My Loved Ones (Napló szerelmeimnek, 1987) and Diary For My Father and Mother (Napló apámnak, anyámnak, 1990). In the beginning of her career she made short films and documentaries, and in 1968 made her first feature film, The Girl (Eltávozott nap). Her other films include Adoption (Örökbefogadás, 1975), which won the Golden Bear in Berlin, Nine Months (Kilenc hónap, 1977), The Two of Them (Ök ketten, 1977), Just Like Home (Olyan mint otthon, 1978), Bye, Bye Red Riding Hood (Bye bye chaperon rouge, 1989), made in French, The Seventh Room (Siódmy pokóy, 1995), Little Vilma: The Last Diary (Kisvilma - Az utolsó napló, 2000), sort of a sequel to Diary, Unburied Corpse (A temetetlen halott, 2004) and Hanna Wende (2005).