After acquiring a degree from Budapest University of Economics, she studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatre and Film Art from 1980 to 1984. Her first feature, My 20th Century, won the prestigious Camera D'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently released widely in Europe and in the United States. It won the Special Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival, as well as the Critic's Special Prize at the Budapest Film Festival, and, in the U.S., finished fourth in the voting of the National Society of Film Critics for Best Film of the Year in 1990. The script for Magic Hunter, her second feature film, won the Hartly-Merrill Prize for International Screenwriting. She is scheduled to shoot her third feature in Sicily during 1996.

FILMOGRAPHY

1981 Flort (Flirt) experimental Rozalovag (Rosenkavalier) documentary

1982 uj konyvek (New Books) short feature film

1985 A nezo (The Viewer) short feature film
Invazio (Invasion) short feature film

1986 Vakond (The Mole) short feature film

1989 Az en XX. szazadom (My 20th Century) feature film

1991 Teli hadjarat (Winter War) TV movie

1994 Buvos vadasz (Magic Hunter) feature film

 

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