Category: hungarian filmmakers

hungarian filmmakers

The Hungarian cartoon that ironizes Hollywood blockbusters

The Hungarian cartoon from the ’80s ironizes the American blockbusters and has become embedded in Hungarian pop culture.

hungarian filmmakers

Feminity in Hungarian cinema – in the spotlight: Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros turns 90 in September and has a life's work behind her that not everyone can claim. The life story of the first Hungarian female director.

The Tragedy of Man, Jankovics’ last big hit on Netflix

Jul 20, 2021 | hungarian filmmakers, industry

The tragedy of man is Marcell Jankovics’s last work. The cartoon, which has been made for almost 30 years, is available on Netflix.

Four Hungarian movies at the Cannes Film Festival

Jul 14, 2021 | hungarian filmmakers, industry

Four Hungarian films have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, two of them had their premiere. We are excited to see what will happen with the other two.

Who marches to the beat of his own drum – producer Robert Lantos

Jun 1, 2021 | hungarian filmmakers

Robert Lantos is the key figure in cinema world. The Hungarian-born Canadian producer helped cultivate the nation’s film industry over the last 40-plus years.

Mari Törőcsik died at the age of eighty-five

Apr 16, 2021 | filming, hungarian actors, hungarian filmmakers

Mari Törőcsik, star of “Caroussel” (1956), the Kossuth, Jászai Mari and Béla Balázs-Prize recipient died at age 85, on Friday.

György Szomjas, acclaimed Hungarian film director, died

Apr 8, 2021 | filming, hungarian filmmakers

His films with an ironic easy to understand tone, witty dialogues, deep content and very hard, serious sayings have always been a great audience success.

After 2017 the Golden Bear may return to Hungary’s hall of fame in 2021

Feb 16, 2021 | hungarian filmmakers

This is a special year for Berlinale as there are two Hungarian nominees with a big chance of bringing the award home.

Hungarian film by Lili Horvát among 2021 Oscar contenders

Feb 8, 2021 | filming, hungarian filmmakers

Hungarian film “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” is among the contenders for the BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATUREs in the 2021 Oscars

Hungarian filmmakers at crossroads – due to tax system changes

Jan 26, 2021 | filming, hungarian filmmakers, industry

Thousands of Hungarian filmmakers protest against tax system change, planning significant changes to their daily fees

The autobiographical volume of Adolf Zukor and William Fox is now published in Hungarian

Jan 5, 2021 | filming, hungarian filmmakers

The autobiographical volume about the Hungarian founders of Hollywood, Adolf Zukor, and William Fox have been published as part of the „Magyarok Hollywoodban” (Hungarians in Hollywood) book series.

Hungarian Award-Winners – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Nov 25, 2020 | filming, hungarian filmmakers

Hungarian or Hungarian-related awards are not particularly famous, certainly there are not a lot of them, but Hungary is proud of all of them. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is one of the few members of this group, with her documentary Free Solo (2018) she won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Hungarian Award-Winners – László Nemes-Jeles

Nov 21, 2020 | filming, hungarian filmmakers

There are 51 Hungarian or Hungarian related Oscar Award-Winners. Not a lot of people know about them, but one name stands out. László Nemes-Jeles, who won both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film Award with Son of Soul (2015) is considered one of Hungary’s most famous directors and screenwriters. His journey in the film industry is truly an outstanding one.

Nimród Antal to direct Liam Neeson in Retribution

Nov 13, 2020 | hungarian filmmakers, production

Nimród Antal has been set to direct Liam Neeson in Retribution, a thriller that puts a businessman in a Speed-like dilemma when he discovers that a bomb has been planted in the car he’s driving by an unknown assailant, who tells the driver to execute a series of commands throughout the day or the bomb will be detonated. Making things worse, the businessman is accompanied in the car by his family.

Interview with Gábor Ferenczy about the “42 strokes” – How a film is produced in Hungary?

Nov 6, 2020 | hungarian filmmakers, interview

The producer of „Martfűi rém”, Gábor Ferenczy has been working on a project for several years about the first Hungarian handicapped Olympic Gold Medalist, even though back in the early 20th century, Paralympics didn’t exist. The movie is called: 42 Karcsapás (42 Strokes). Right now, it seems, that the long-awaited dream is about to finally come true. An interview with Gábor Ferenczy.