---
name: "Károly Szalai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karoly-szalai"
fi1m_id: "karoly-szalai"
imdb_id: "nm0843728"
tmdb_id: 1440048
wikidata_id: "Q105404473"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "16 December 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-30T09:16:22.899282+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Károly Szalai

## Identity

Károly Szalai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karoly-szalai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karoly-szalai
- **IMDb ID:** nm0843728
- **TMDB ID:** 1440048
- **Wikidata ID:** Q105404473
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105404473, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1440048

Editor. Born 16 December 1972 in Szentendre.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 16 December 1972, Szentendre
- **Also known as:** Szalai Károly
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105404473, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1440048

## Biography

Károly Szalai is a Hungarian film editor. He was born on 16 December 1972 in Szentendre.

Szalai has edited numerous feature films, including *On Body and Soul* (2017), *Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time* (2020), *Valan: Valley of Angels* (2019), *The Story of My Wife* (2021) and *Silent Friend* (2026). He has also worked on documentaries and television series.

He received the Balázs Béla Award in 2011 and the Hungarian Film Critics Award for best editing in 2018. Szalai is a founding member of the Hungarian Film Academy and a docent at Budapest Metropolitan University.

*Sources: imdb.com, nfi.hu, hse.hu, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Silent Friend* (2026), Fi1m 77, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/silent-friend.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My Notes on Mars* (2026), Editor
- *Silent Friend* (2026), Editor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/silent-friend.md)
- *KIX* (2024), Editor
- *Agent of Happiness* (2024), Editor
- *A legbelsőbb Ázsia - Magyarok nyomában Mongolországban* (2024), Editor
- *I Won't Die* (2024), Editor
- *Mastergame* (2023), Editor
- *My Fear in My Arms* (2023), Editor
- *The Story of My Wife* (2021), Editor
- *Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time* (2020), Editor
- *Valan: Valley of Angels* (2019), Editor
- *The Next Guardian* (2018), Editor
- *On Body and Soul* (2017), Editor
- *Mom and Other Loonies in the Family* (2015), Editor
- *His Parents' Eyes* (2015), Editor
- *Overdose - Run for a Dream* (2013), Editor
- *Casper and Emma: Best Friends* (2013), Assistant Editor
- *Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen* (2012), Editor
- *The Ant and the Cicada* (2007), Editor
- *Zhiguli* (2004), Editor
- *Dealer* (2004), Editor
- *Helyfoglalás, avagy a mogyorók bejövetele* (1999), Editor

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