Ferenc Rofusz
Ferenc Rófusz (born August 19, 1946 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian animator .
Life
Rófusz became interested in animation films at an early age and attended drawing and animation courses during school. He first worked as a set designer and animator at the Hungarian Mafilm from 1966 and came to the Pannonia Filmstudio in 1968 , where he worked with Marcell Jankovics , among others . His debut film as a director was the short animation film A kő in 1974 . In 1981 he received an Oscar for Die Fliege in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ”.
In 1984 Rofusz moved to Germany as a guest worker and worked as an animator on the feature film In der Arche ist der Wurm . Four years later, Rófusz went to Canada with his wife and two sons, where he worked as a commercial filmmaker and founded his own film production studio in 1990. For economic reasons, he had to close his studio in the mid-1990s. After some time working in parallel in the USA and Canada, he returned to Hungary in 2002.
Filmography
- 1974: Adolars Fantastic Adventures (A Mézga család különös kalandjai) (TV series) - animation only
- 1974: A kő
- 1976: Gusztáv olvasna
- 1980: The Fly (A légy)
- 1984: Gravitáció
- 1988: The worm is in the ark - animation only
- 1991: The Wish That Changed Christmas (TV) - animation sequence only
- 2003: Ceasefire!
- 2004: Szerencsi, fel!
- 2005: Dog's Life
- 2010: ticket
Awards
- 1981: Oscar , best animated short film , for Die Fliege
- 1981: Don Quixote Award at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy for The Fly
- 1984: OIAF Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival for Gravitáció
- 2011: Kossuth Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Web links
- Ferenc Rofusz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed interview with Rofusz (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Rofusz on filmkultura.hu (Hungarian)
- ^ Andrew L. Simon: Made in Hungary: Hungarian Contributions to Universal Culture . Simon Publications 1998, p. 117.
- ↑ See kultura.hu ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rofusz, Ferenc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rófusz, Ferenc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian animator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |