György Fehér

György Fehér (12 February 1939 – 15 July 2002) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His film Szenvedély was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

György Fehér
Born(1939-02-12)12 February 1939
Budapest, Hungary
Died15 July 2002(2002-07-15) (aged 63)
Budapest, Hungary
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Years active1973-2002

Biography

Between 1985 and 1994 Fehér was a teacher at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. From 1959 he worked for a year and a half at the Radio, then at Hungarian Television as a sound technician and then as an assistant cameraman. After graduating, he worked as a cinematographer and director for Hungarian Television from 1975 to 2001. Between 1980 and 1982 he was artistic director of the Móricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza.

In 1972, he graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, majoring in directing and cinematography. Between 1980 and 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 Attila József: A List of Free Ideas in Two Sittings with Tamás Jordán in 1992.

His first feature film, Szürkület (1990), won a special prize at the XXII Hungarian Film Festival and various awards at international festivals such as Locarno and Strasbourg. His film "Sense of Death" won the Grand Jury Prize for Feature, Experimental and Short Films, the Best Director Award, the Best Actor and Actress Award, the Cinematography Award and the Gene Moskowitz Award from foreign critics at the XXIX Hungarian Film Festival.

At the National Theatre in Miskolc, he has directed two plays starring Ági Olasz: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in 1998 and Edward Albee's We are not afraid of the Wolf in 2000. In 1999 he directed the opera Leonce and Lena by János Vajda and George Büchner at the Hungarian State Opera House.

Filmography
  • III. Richárd (1973)
  • Volpone (1974)
  • Rejtekhely (1978)
  • Nevelésügyi sorozat I. (1989)
  • Szürkület (1990)
  • Szenvedély (1998)

References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: Passion". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 October 2009.


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