Zsolt Bács

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Zsolt Bács (born 1963 in Budapest ) is a German actor , screenwriter , director and producer.

Life

Zsolt Bács, who comes from Hungary , grew up in Germany . He wanted to become a doctor and studied medicine in Budapest and Berlin for five years . He then decided on an artistic career and completed an acting training at the European Film Actor School in Zurich , for which he received a scholarship from the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation . He attended theater workshops with Alexander Kalyaghin Chekhov Art Theater in Moscow and with Walter Lott and Susan Batson Actors Studio New York .

Since 1993 Bács has appeared regularly in German-language television and cinema productions. He was often used on German television in crime series and crime films, in which he was often set to the role of the contradicting villain or the psychopathic perpetrator. Occasionally he also played charming lovers. Bács played the leading role in the SAT1 television series Großstadtträume and numerous main episode roles and guest roles in TV films, as well as in movies such as Zero Uhr 12 (2001) by Bernd Michael Lade , Agnes und seine Brüder (2004) by Oskar Röhler and Tod den Hippies! ! Long live punk (2015), which was also directed by Oskar Röhler. In 2003, Bács played the attractive stud owner Carsten Sandlass in the television series In all friendship and he was seen in the RTL historical film Hero of Gladiators as Galenus, the trainer of the gladiators. In 2007 he appeared in several episodes of the television series Crazy About Clara , and in 2008 and 2012 in the feature film Esperanza and the international bestselling film The Child .

In addition to his work as an actor, Bács has also worked as a screenwriter for various productions since 1996. a. for the screenplay hot and cold breath , the SAT 1 television film Ein Vater im Einzelhandlung . Since 2002 he has also worked as a director, initially on the short film Braindogs , a gangster comedy for which he also wrote the screenplay. This was followed by his first full-length feature film Esperanza , which was shown at the Berlinale in 2006 as the opening film of "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" and was released in 2008. Bács himself took on the role of the funny ship's cook Béla. From 2008 to 2011 he directed the telenovela Anna und die Liebe and from 2010 to 2011 the daily series Hand auf Herz . In 2012, Bács played the male lead Detective Adam in the international movie Slave , for which he received the “Best Supporting Actor” award at NYCIFF (New York City International Film Festival). In 2012 he made the first film adaptation of a bestseller by Sebastian Fitzek , Das Kind with Eric Roberts in the leading role, with Peter Green , Dieter Hallervorden and Clemens Schick , for which he also took over the production.

Together with the actor Martin Luding , he developed the comedy program Men's Evening , a "lustful ghost train ride through the being of man", with which he has been touring regularly ever since.

Bács lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

  • 2002: Braindogs (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2006: Esperanza (script, script, director)
  • 2008: Anna and Love (Director)
  • 2010: Hand on Heart (series)
  • 2012: The Child

Screenwriter

  • 1997: Hot, Cold Breath (screenplay)
  • 1998: A single-handed father (screenplay)
  • 1999: Delta Team, In the Name of God (screenplay)
  • 1999: Delta Team, Job-Mann (screenplay)
  • 1999: Delta Team, Red Mercury (screenplay)
  • 2002: Braindogs (screenplay, director)
  • 2006: Esperanza (screenplay, director)
  • 2010: Slave (screenplay, production)
  • 2012: Das Kind (The Child) (Screenplay, Director, Production)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The film database www.imdb.com and the actor's homepage both state Budapest as the place of birth. According to other sources, for example the Berlinale program (PDF; 118 kB), Bács was born in 1967 in Munich.
  2. ↑ Braindogs . Homepage of the film (information about the film)
  3. ↑ ESPERANZA (PDF; 252 kB) press kit of the film.
personal data
SURNAME Bács, Zsolt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bàcs, Zsolt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest