Biography

He graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in 1972, majoring in directing and opera. Between 1980-1982 he was artistic director of the Móricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza. He has appeared in several films (Miklós Jancsó: The Season of Monsters, Blue Danube Waltz, The Lord Gave Me a Lantern in Peste, Gyula Maár: Cloud Play, Károly Makk: You Have to Play, Géza Bereményi: The Apprentices, Károly Makk: Love, etc.). He is an outstanding figure in Hungarian film history. His five films won prizes at the Veszprém TV festival: Shakespeare: Richard III in 1975, Volpone in 1976, Barrabás in 1979, The School of Women in 1985, while his film Revenge won the Best Director prize in 1978. He is also credited with the television adaptation of Attila József's poems and his life: the József Attila Poems in 1981, the nineteen-part documentary film about Attila József in 1981-1983, Be Foolish - An Evening with Attila József with Hobo, and József Attila: A List of Free Ideas in Two Sittings with Tamás Jordán in 1992. His feature film Passion (1998) won the main prize of the feature, experimental and short film jury at the XXIX Hungarian Film Festival, the best director award, the best male and female actor award, the cinematography award and the Gene Moskowitz Award of foreign critics, as well as several international festival awards.