Barna Kabay
Barna Kabay (born August 15, 1948 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian film director , screenwriter and film producer .
Life
Kabay first studied architecture and then until 1973 film and television directing at the Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem in Budapest. He worked for Hungarian television and in 1974 co-founded the Hungarian television experimental studio.
As early as the late 1960s, Kabay worked as a screenwriter with director Imre Gyöngyössy ; From the 1970s onwards, both also made films in Koregie. For the first time solely directed by Kabay when published in 1975 film Legend of the rabbit stew on a novel by Jenő Józsi Tersánszky . Kabay, Gyöngyössy and screenwriter Katalin Petényi (* 1941), who married Gyöngyössy in 1980, subsequently formed a filmmaker trio that worked ever closer together and created feature films and documentaries together. In 1980 the trio moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and settled on Lake Starnberg . They founded the production company Macropusfilm in Bavaria and made films on behalf of ZDF, WDR and NDR, among others. In 1983, Kabay directed Gyöngyössy in the film Job's Revolte , in which a Jewish-Hasidic couple adopted a Christian orphan boy in 1943. The film was nominated in 1984 for an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film . In the following feature films, documentaries and films in hybrid themed Kabay, Gyöngyössy and Petényi always the fate of persecuted and displaced persons, as in Boat People (1987) the story of Vietnamese refugees on the Cap Anamur II and in the movies Homeless and freedom of the dead , the Fate of the Volga Germans :
“The… mixture of documentary realism and personal concern is the almost constant motif of the films: general human, identifying connection with the victims of genocide and persecution up to the present day in the simple guise of the docu-drama. Historical causes are seldom the focus. The directing team [...] is based on the individual memories and traumatic experiences of survivors. "
Even after Gyöngyössy's death in 1994, Kabay made feature and documentary films together with Petényi, including the German-Hungarian documentary In Memoriam Imre Gyöngyössy in 1997 , which received two special awards at the Venice International Film Festival . In January 1997 a retrospective of the feature and documentary films by Gyöngyössy, Kabay and Petényi was shown in Hamburg and Berlin under the title Hope and Myth - Radical Humanism .
Filmography (selection)
- 1975: Legend of the roast hare (Legenda a nyúlpaprikásról)
- 1977: A Quite Ordinary Life (Két elhatározás)
- 1978: Havasi selyemfiú
- 1980: Fractions of Life (Töredék az életröl)
- 1981: Pusztai emberek
- 1983: Job's Revolt (Jób lázadása)
- 1984: Yerma
- 1985: Add tudtára fiaidnak
- 1986: Loan
- 1986: The miracle rabbi
- 1987: Boat People
- 1988: Lunar Circus (Cirkusz a holdon)
- 1989: Transylvania - sweet home
- 1990: homeless
- 1991: freedom of the dead
- 1991: Fifty Years of Silence (Számüzöttek)
- 1994: Europe is wide
- 1994: Death in Shallow Water (Halál sekély vízben)
- 1997: In Memoriam Imre Gyöngyössy
- 1999: Hippolyt
- 2000: Meseautó
- 2005: The Mediator (A Közvetítő)
- 2009: Szuperbojz
- 2014: Kulák volt az apám
Awards (selection)
- 1978: Special Jury Award , Chicago International Film Festival , for An Ordinary Life
- 1978: 1978 Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for a very ordinary life
- 1988: Nomination Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, for Boat People
- 1991: Ecumenical Jury Prize , Montréal World Film Festival, for Fifty Years of Silence
- 1994: Audience Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam , for A Quite Ordinary Life
- 1997: Sergio Trasatti Prize, Venice International Film Festival 1997, for In Memoriam Imre Gyöngyössy
- 2001: Magyar Filmszemle, Most Popular Film, for Hippolyt
Web links
- Barna Kabay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Barna Kabay at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Albus: The deep looks. The Hungarian film director and producer Barna Kabay . owep.de, No. 2, 2007.
- ↑ a b Klaus Dermutz : The loneliness of memory. To the retrospective of the feature films and documentaries by Gyöngyössy, Kabay, Petenyi. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 30, 1996, p. 8.
- ^ Gudrun Holz: Mourning Work: The Arsenal presents films by Hungarian directors . In: The daily newspaper edition Berlin. January 7, 1997, p. 24.
- ↑ Special prizes for German film . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , September 12, 1997, p. 16.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kabay, Barna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian film director, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |