László Nemes Jeles

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László Nemes Jeles during the shooting of the film The Counterpart  (2008)

László Nemes Jeles (born February 18, 1977 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian film director.

Life

László Nemes was born in Budapest as the son of the Hungarian film director András Jeles and the Jewish-Hungarian mother Anikó Kiss. He grew up in Paris between 1989 and 2003 . Nemes took an early interest in filmmaking and began making amateur horror films in the basement of his Paris home. He went into film and in 2005 began to make a name for himself with assistant work in film productions. In 2006 he continued his education in New York City at the Tisch School of the Arts . In 2007 he assisted Béla Tarr in his film The Man from London . In 2007 his short film Türelem was shown at the Venice International Film Festival ; the film won awards in Hungary and was nominated for the 2008 European Film Prize.

Nemes wrote the script for his first feature film Saul fia with Clara Royer and directed it. The production costs of the film were covered by the Hungarian state film subsidy and the Claims Conference in New York. The film was invited to the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival competition. The film shows 36 hours in the life of a Jewish concentration camp inmate in the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1944. The camera is positioned at arm's length in front of or behind the protagonist for two hours of film and shows the viewer only blurred. Saul fia won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes . In January 2016 it was named Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards 2016 and in February 2016 at the Academy Awards 2016 . In March 2016, Nemes received the Kossuth Prize . In the same year he was appointed to the competition jury of the 69th Cannes International Film Festival .

In 2018 László Nemes shot the film Sunset , which premiered at the 75th Venice Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI prize in an international competition there. The film was also shown at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival . Sunset was selected as a Hungarian entry for the Academy Awards 2019 in the category “Best Foreign Language Film”.

Filmography

  • 2007: Türelem (short film)
  • 2008: The Counterpart (short film)
  • 2010: Az úr elköszön (short film)
  • 2015: Saul fia
  • 2018: Sunset

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Pulver: László Nemes: 'I didn't want Son of Saul to tell the story of survival'. The Guardian , April 14, 2016, accessed April 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Son Of Saul. In: Euforia European Films For Innovative Audience. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Nicolas Rapold: Cannes Film Festival: 'Saul Fia' From Laszlo Nemes, Is a Hungarian's Horror Story , in: The New York Times , May 12, 2015
  4. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek : Up to the gas chamber , in: Die Welt , May 16, 2015, p. 26
  5. ↑ Cannes: 'Son of Saul,' 'Masaan' Take Fipresci Prizes at hollywoodreporter.com, May 23, 2015 (accessed May 23, 2015).
  6. ↑ Makers of 'Son of Saul' receive Kossuth Prize , accessed March 25, 2016
  7. ↑ Venice 2018: The Critics Prizes. In: fipresci.org. FIPRESCI, September 8, 2018, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 87 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2018 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR. In: oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, October 8, 2018, accessed June 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nemes Jeles, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest