Imre Gyöngyössy

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Imre Gyöngyössy (born February 25, 1930 in Pécs ; † May 1, 1994 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Gyöngyössy was born in Pécs and attended the school of the Pannonhalma Territorial Abbey in Pannonhalma . He studied film directing and screenwriting at the Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem in Budapest and was sentenced to several years in prison in 1950 in a Stalinist show trial. After his release in 1954, he lived underground for two years. Only in 1956 did the rehabilitation and the continuation of his studies, which he finished in 1960/61. After completing his studies, he was one of the founders of Balázs Béla Stúdiós , where he made the short films Male Portrait (1964) and Views of a City (1965). He also wrote scripts and plays. His first feature-length film directing work was The Golden Dragon in 1967 , where he worked in Koregie with László Ranódy . For the first time he was the sole director of a feature film two years later for Palm Sunday .

From the late 1960s he worked with Barna Kabay (* 1948) as a screenwriter; From the 1970s onwards, both also made films in Koregie. Gyöngyössy, Kabay 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 Gyöngyössy made the feature film Hiobs Revolte with Barna Kabay , 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 Gyöngyössy, Kabay and Petényi themed 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. "

- Gudrun Holz, 1997
Imre Gyöngyössy's grave in Budapest

Gyöngyössy died after a serious illness in Budapest in 1994 and was buried in the Farkasréti cemetery there. In 1997, Petényi and Kabay released their German-Hungarian documentary In Memoriam Imre Gyöngyössy , 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 .

Gyöngyössy's son Bence Gyöngyössy (* 1963) also works as a film director and producer.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1964: Portrait of a man (Férfiarckép) (short film)
  • 1965: Views of a City (Változatok egy városról) (short film)
  • 1967: The golden dragon (Aranysárkány)
  • 1969: Palm Sunday (Virágvasárnap)
  • 1972: The Legend of the Death and Resurrection of Two Boys (Meztelen vagy)
  • 1974: The Sons of Fire (Szarvassá vált fiúk)
  • 1975: The Waiting (Várakozók)
  • 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)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klára Tóth: An Exceptional Series of Documentary Films - On the Gyöngyössy-Kabay-Petényi Workshop . hungarianreview.com, January 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Christoph Egger: For human dignity. On the death of Imre Gyöngyössy . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 13, 1994, p. 69.
  3. ↑ David Robinson: Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay et Katalin Petényi: un trio aux aguets ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . festival-larochelle.org, 1993.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.festival-larochelle.org
  4. ↑ Imre Gyöngyössy . In: Andrew L. Simon: Made in Hungary: Hungarian Contributions to Universal Culture . Simon, 1999, p. 115.
  5. ^ The Béla Balázs Studio . filmkultura.hu
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ^ Gudrun Holz: Mourning Work: The Arsenal presents films by Hungarian directors . In: The daily newspaper edition Berlin. January 7, 1997, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Special prizes for German film . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , September 12, 1997, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Gyöngyössy, Imre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1994
Place of death Budapest